The American Design Award, a leading global design competition, recently announced its 2025 winners. The EVO-X2 desktop AI supercomputer, the flagship product of GMKtec, a leading Chinese mini-computer brand, received the highest honor, the Platinum American Design Award, for its groundbreaking design innovation and exceptional performance. This is the first time a Chinese desktop AI supercomputer brand has received this prestigious award, signaling that GMKtec's design capabilities and technological prowess have reached the top of the global design field.
The American Good Design Platinum Award: The "Oscars" of the global design community
As one of the world's most influential design competitions, the American Good Design Award is known as the "Oscars of Design," and its Platinum Award is specifically awarded to the most groundbreaking work in the industry. The award's selection criteria encompass creativity, technological advancement, sustainability, and social value, and is recognized only for design masterpieces that "demonstrate extraordinary artistic and technical achievement and have a significant positive impact on society." According to the award's organizing committee, over 12,000 entries from 52 countries and regions were submitted in 2025, but less than 0.5% of them received Platinum certification, highlighting the rarity and prestige of the award.
Organization Analysis: American International Award Association
The Good Design Award was founded by the American International Award Association and hosted by International Award Association Limited. It aims to discover outstanding design worldwide and provide a global platform for outstanding designers to showcase their work. The Good Design Award's jury is comprised of distinguished design experts, design directors, and business founders from across various fields worldwide, and a strict confidential evaluation process is employed to ensure fairness. Past recipients of the Good Design Award have significantly impacted people's lives, improved living standards, and inspired social innovation.
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Award-winning Product Analysis: GMKtec EVO-X2
The GMKtec EVO-X2's success, standing out from a field of strong competitors, is not only a testament to the product itself but also a significant breakthrough for Chinese intelligent manufacturing on the global design stage. Previously, the Platinum Award was mostly won by companies from traditional design powerhouses like Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea. GMKtec's win breaks this pattern and sets a new benchmark for Chinese technology brands.
Super Dimensional Intelligent Core Design: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Environmental Protection
The EVO-X2 adopts the innovative "Super Dimensional Intelligent Core" design language. Its chassis is crafted from 100% recycled aluminum. Through a unibody molding process, it achieves an extremely compact 0.8L footprint. Yet, it features a silent cooling system consisting of dual turbo fans and a VC vapor chamber, maintaining operating noise levels below 40dB even at 140W peak performance. This "small body, big power" design concept not only meets the aesthetic demands of modern office and home environments, but also embodies the concept of sustainable development through the use of environmentally friendly materials. It perfectly meets the dual requirements of the Good Design Award for "artistic value and social responsibility."
Flagship-level computing power: Desktop supercomputing in the AI era
In terms of performance, the EVO-X2 is equipped with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, featuring a 16-core, 32-thread architecture and a 5.1GHz boost frequency, providing a powerful foundation for computing power. Integrating the RDNA 3.5 architecture Radeon 8060S integrated graphics and the 50TOPS XDNA 2 NPU, it can easily handle demanding computing requirements such as AI inference, 4K video rendering, and multi-tasking. With a built-in 70B DeepSeek localized large model, users can enjoy intelligent features such as AI dialogue, code generation, and image creation right out of the box. This brings professional-grade AI capabilities to ordinary desktop devices, realizing the vision of "computing power for all."
A New Milestone in China's Smart Manufacturing Globalization: From Technology Follower to Standard Leader
Since its founding, GMKtec has consistently upheld its brand mission of "making high-performance computing accessible," focusing on technological research and design innovation in the mini-computer space. From establishing a market foundation with its early M-series products to winning the EVO-X2, which has garnered top international design awards, GMKtec has transformed from a "technology follower" to a "standard leader" in just a few years.
Regarding this award, the CEO of GMKtec commented: "The Platinum Award is not only a recognition of the EVO-X2 desktop AI supercomputer, but also a testament to the design capabilities of Chinese technology brands. As we advance, we will take this opportunity to continue deepening our presence in the desktop AI supercomputer market, striving for breakthroughs in AI computing power, green design, and user experience. We aim to bring more beautiful and user-friendly intelligent computing products to global users, allowing Chinese intelligent manufacturing to shine even brighter on the global tech stage."
Built-in Local AI Model — Ready Out of the Box with Local Knowledge Base
The GMKtec EVO X2 comes with a built-in local AI model, enabling instant, offline use without internet dependency. Its local knowledge base supports personalized content storage and retrieval, ensuring that private data remains securely on the device.
With its compact form factor and multi-scenario adaptability, EVO X2 makes offline Q&A, document processing, and personalized AI applications efficient, private, and seamless — delivering a truly next-generation computing experience.
Built-in LLaMA 109B large model (128G version)
Supports up to Qwen3235B and DeepSeek 70B models (128GB version)
The GMKtec EVO-X2 is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, featuring a 50TOPS XDNA 2 architecture NPU and supporting up to 128GB of unified memory, with up to 96GB allocated for video memory. Through customized memory scheduling strategies and deep quantization optimization, it allows full-scale Qwen3-235B models to run smoothly locally, and can also successfully deploy and run large 70B models such as DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.
128G version local AI operation capability table
AMD Lisa Su autographs the GMKtec EVO-X2
AMD official recommendation
Ji Zhaohui, current AMD Greater China Marketing Vice President, recommended
About GMKtec
Shenzhen GMK Technology Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise specializing in desktop AI supercomputing centers and mini PCs. The brand GMKtec is a recognized “Shenzhen Famous Brand,” alongside Huawei and DJI.
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Global leader in mini PCs and desktop AI supercomputing.
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Strong R&D, production, and brand marketing capabilities.
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Strategic partnerships with Intel, AMD, and Microsoft.
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Products sold in 70+ countries with 35+ global distributors and service centers.
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Established Longhua Industrial Base in 2019 for end-to-end development, testing, logistics, and global distribution.
GMKtec continues to drive innovation in edge AI computing, delivering powerful, compact, and versatile AI hardware that empowers enterprises, creators, and developers worldwide.
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