If you read Neowin regularly, you may have seen our GEEKOM A9 Max review dropped around two weeks ago. The one major thing that held it back was the fact that it is shipping with just one memory stick (DIMM) of 32GB DDR5 SODIMM. This is important because to fully utilize the onboard graphics' capabilities, two RAM sticks are required to achieve full memory bandwidth.
As a refresher, a single DDR5 stick splits its 64-bit data bus into two independent 32-bit sub-channels; using two sticks opens up the full 128-bit wide memory bus, maximizing the data transfer rates between your RAM and CPU or iGP.
I said near the end of the review that I would revisit this mini PC with a second 32GB memory stick, which is also the ideal configuration for it, since most of our benchmarks performed even worse than the 2024 A9 Max, which included a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, but much more importantly the 2024 Edition had 32GB of Dual Channel DDR5 memory (2x16G).
As a reminder, here are the A9 Max 2026 Edition's full specifications, including the updated 64GB of memory:
GEEKOM A9 Max 2026 Edition
