Checking the new website, when configuring the Laptop for AMD AI 300 chips, the RAM is “DDR5-5600” .
I thought it was mentioned (in the LTT video) that the RAM had to be soldered on?
Would this not be LPDDR5x RAM? Hopefully using a newer 7500MT/s (~7500Mhz) chips instead?
I’m wondering what is actually correct here - if it’s using DDR5-5600(soldered) or LPDDR5x-7500 (and the website is just a little incorrect).
There are power differences meaning worse battery life, and potential performance impacts with the chips using the iGPU.
Thanks for any clarification, and sorry if this is in the wrong topic.
old486whizz
You’re mistaking the Framework 13 mobo with the Framework Desktop mobo. The desktop version has the soldered RAM. 13 mobo still has replaceable RAM afaik.
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This is correct, the new laptops use a pair of standard DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM modules like the previous AMD laptops. Only the Framework Desktop has soldered RAM.
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Thanks guys - my mistake… Shame LPDDR5x isn’t used (maybe in CAMM?), using what 25% of the power (square voltage diff right?)… Damn.
Just an FYI:
I have an SER9 (AMD ryzen AI 9 370, LPDDR5x-7500).
Setting the RAM to ~5500 MT/s instead of the 7500MT/s I ran “vkmark”, with “RADV_DEBUG=syncshaders” and without.
I saw a drop in performance of ~3000 from the most tests (avg of 15% performance loss).
It would be interesting to see anyone with a new framework laptop running “vkmark” and giving some output for performance comparisons (because maybe the bandwidth maybe makes up for the MT/s loss?) but what a shame…