Hello! Not sure if anyone else has experienced this yet - I’m hoping it’s not a hardware issue. When the dGPU kicks on and spits new frames, I’ve noticed that there’s a very noticeable buzzing sound every time. This leads to constant stuttering in games. The effect is most noticeable when working on CAD, where every time the renderer does its thing (e.g. rotating your model) the GPU does this constant buzzing noise until the rotation stops. I’ve done a clean install of the amd gpu drivers in the hopes that would fix it, but no luck so far.
Does anyone else have any experience similar to this with the Framework 16?
All this has been done on the internal display, no external display tested yet. Batch 6 running Windows 11 Pro
I haven’t experienced your issue but if you’re experiencing coil whine in your dgpu fans, it’s probably a hardware issue not anything to do with software. You should contact support and tell them about you’re issue and if you’re unable to solve it, ask if they can send you a replacement unit for your defective gpu.
As for the stuttering, I’m am not sure why either. It might be because your gpu is throttling and the fans might have some issues causing them to not provide enough cooling.
Also try installing the driver package specifically provided by Framework, not the ones provided by AMD.
Let me clarify, I don’t believe the coil whine is a separate issue (and it’s not from the fan), it’s linked directly to screen movements and I believe is a symptom of whatever the problem is. It’s less of a standard coil whine, more of a ratcheting sound sounds like is being made with every frame that’s getting pushed to the display.
This sounds to me like a faulty switch mode regulator within the GPU. It is possibly going into current limit mode which can cause the regulator to run in a strange mode which causes it to stop and start, causing the coil noise.
I would suggest you contact framework support, with the eventual aim of getting a replacement GPU.
I’ve had coil whine that follows movements on my desktop for two GPU generations as well. I think it’s just how it be. I am dealing with perf problems too, but more macrostuttering than micro (60+ms frame times!).
After running VR for a bit yesterday, I definitely noticed this morning that even page updates in chrome are quite loud in the 16. Not sure if it is just that I notice it now that it is a cool morning without intense GPU use, so no fan noise at all, or if the very heavy session from yesterday (at least as heavy as Beat Saber gets) made the coil whine/buzz more pronounced. I’m hoping it is not the latter.
I can live with it, but it is noticeable even over the A/C sound in my home or when not sitting on a flat sound amplifying surface. Even just scrolling this page is making little creaky buzzing, like a VRM somewhere is working really hard.
Hi, i am having the same issues with coil whine when switching to dgpu and rotating view in blender… have you had success in getting your issue fixed ?
Batch 1, Windows 11 Education N here, I have this exact issue. I haven’t experienced much stuttering in games but in CAD I hear a little whine when running over some UI elements in prusaslicer and when orbiting in Fusion. When either of these are open my mouse is constantly stuttering, sometimes it gets quite bad but I haven’t found a correlating factor. I have found though, that when I am orbiting, that stuttering goes away when the cursor icon changes.
I just ran my first deep learning training run on the dGPU and indeed it sounded like an old dot matrix printer when each batch started. The GPU that sings…
Experiencing something similar within Unreal Engine 5.3 editor. There’s an audible physical buzz coming from within the machine (sounds like the dGpu). It only occurs when unreal is in focus, alt-tabbing and it immediately goes away. Even clicking a file menu within Unreal causes it to stop, but its maddening to have this very audible buzz (louder than fan noise) when in the editor.
Hi everyone,
Happy to find that i’m not alone hearing things !
I only got the igpu, but i can definitly hear something when i rotate my view in blender or solidworks, even when scrolling in firefox. I think it’s really connected to the mouvement in the screen but i can’t say for sure from where it comes. Somewhere leftside beneath the air event on top of the keyboard
It’s not even bothering me, the sound is really low, but i hear it since the first time i use this computer and i’m wondering if it’s supposed to be like that or not…
Anyway i really like this computer, and i’m really happy with it !
I just got my Framework 16 mid last week, and can confirm that there is significant coil whine when using Blender 4.1 on the device. I was able to reduce it to a more tolerable level by disabling all antialiasing features within Blender.
Will also note that I ran the Heaven benchmark on the device, and when it was running it produced coil whine that sounded like a broken fan for a bit.
Heres to hoping this gets sorted out eventually. As the whine I get in Blender would make it very difficult to use in a quiet place like a library.
The coil whine is pretty significant, but honestly the fans are more of an issue when working with blender in a quiet space.
Unless I’m only in the solid view mode or editing nodes, the fans ramp up like crazy. They are loud enough to hear from another room with the door closed.
I contacted Framework support and they said some amount of coil whine is expected with the components. They have a range where they count it as acceptable.
