Introducing the new Framework Laptop 16 with NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070

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There are so many issues with ROCm. Let me know if I am wrong -

  1. The most obvious one, the GPU is not supported. We have Radeon 7700S, which is not the same thing as Radeon RX 7700 XT, and AMD very clearly says that if the GPU is not on this list, it not supported

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  1. we’re using laptops, not desktops, for a reason. We need portability, sometimes we need low power consumption (when not running LLM workloads obviously). However, IGPU’s are also not supported:

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  2. if you reach out to Framework support about any GPU issues (and I have plenty even on a replacement one, full system lockups are common, Framework support will tell you that Ubuntu AMD drivers are outdated, and that you need to use Fedora, or Atomic option like Bluefin/Bazzite instead. The problem? All of those options are unsupported:

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Are my eyes deceiving me? Or am I right in saying not meant to be used on FW 16?

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