People are also assuming that the NIC is actually capable of the claimed line speed; in my experience Realtek are not. for example, my experience of Realtek ‘gigabit’ chips is that they crap out around 110mbit and are only barely capable of 100mbps sustained transfer rates.
If their 100mbps chips are actually capable of sustaining 100mbps (~12.5MB/s throughput) then that’s great, if not their so-called ‘gigabit’ chips will just about fit the bill.
Transferring all my data between two computers was faster with an intel 10/100 card in one computer (intel gigabit in the other) than with the realtek onboard because the intel card quickly hit 12MB/s and stayed there for the duration while the realtek ramped up and as soon as it hit 13MB/s, it crapped itself and dropped to KB/s.
I would have to say you got a bad NIC. While my preference is Intel most third party docks come with Realtek. The one I am using right now gets at least 800mbps since some of my file transfers clock in at 100MB/s+ . Most of my reading on the matter suggests that Realtek do crap out at around 850mbps or so depending on the chipset. So they are generally perfectly fine for use with say a laptop, but I would never use them in a server, firewall, or router as anything but a management interface.
I like my original 11th Gen Framework. But I’d love to see a Ryzen option, specifically the Ryzen 7040 series, not so much for the CPU performance (which I don’t need for the things I do with it) but for the much better GPU. I know some of you are looking for a 7045 series processor and a discrete GPU, but that will have to wait for a new platform with more cooling, and it will be a larger and heavier system that I don’t want.
That’s the option that would convince me to upgrade this year. Otherwise I’ll just have to wait through a few more Intel generations because they’re not expected to deliver a major graphics improvement until 15th Gen.
There are only three known Ryzen 7x40 Mobile parts. Unless Framework got an unannounced one (rumors are there may be one, but lets go with what we have) it would be a Ryzen 5 7640HS or a Ryzen 7 7840HS. Framework-AMD TDP is unannounced.
I’m kinda curious if this the 7040 CPUs going in these main-boards will have the AI engines included? From what I read about them it’s only some 7040 CPUs that will have those included. Maybe I’m mistaken.
I’m in for one of the AMD units and I’m super excited!