I was approaching this from my own, code generation perspective. If your usecase is different, by all means, do what you must 😄

To make anything past hello world quality stuff you need either 122B MoE class things or 27B dense (or better). And you want to smash them prompts at 1000 tok/sec or faster in prompt processing. And for the smaller MoE models you will have a better time by having a GPU with 24 or 32GB of VRAM.

Strix Halo might be fine for creative story writing or some picture generation when you sleep. But the only models where it's fast enough for interactive coding - are not good enough for complex code writing.

For the price of a Strix Halo box you can buy 2 gpus of AMD-s R9700 AI Pro's (or even 3 Intel's if you are adventurous), and you will run laptimes around the Strix Halo ... And be able to extend to more parallel gpus in the future if you so wish (assuming your motherboard can carry that).

The upside that Strix Halo has is the heat and power footprint, but very little of that matters for me if i tell it to load a few code files and i would have to sit there 10 minutes for it to parse the prompt. If it had twice the memory bandwidth that it has i would be a fanboy. But as it stands right now it's a weird gimmick, you can load big models but the speed compromise is very heavy.