With the size, specs, and TDP of the Desktop it could be a solid home server. Support for SR-IOV with its iGPU would be next level. Especially since there isn’t really an option for SR-IOV for consumers that doesn’t require a crazy amount of money or using ancient enterprise cards.
If I’m not mistaken, this requires the APU to have support for the feature, not just the BIOS. I couldn’t find any mention in the AI 300 series specs of SR-IOV. This doesn’t mean that it isn’t supported; AMD just doesn’t mention it anywhere. That being said, they actually don’t list any of the Virtualization capabilities of the AI 300 series. I even checked several 3rd party spec sites like techpowerup.com and there is no mention of SR-IOV support.
Framework may have to ask AMD directly if this is supported at all. It may be beyond their control in the end. That may also explain why we don’t see more consumer options for home servers with SR-IOV; it may simply be a feature they leave out of most consumer-grade chips.
tl;dr: don’t hold your breath.
An AMD GPU is the most distant choice for anyone thinking about SR-IOV.
Their consumer GPUs are well-known in the home-labber/virtualization enthusiast space to not support SR-IOV. Some are a nightmare for just PCIe pass-through.
You’d be hard-pressed to find even documentation that their professional GPUs support SR-IOV―even the ones that actually do.
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