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We will prepare a driver bundle with the latest version in the coming weeks. Until then, you can download the driver directly from the AMD website. This driver is compatible with the Framework Desktop Ryzen AI MAX 300 series.
AI / LM Studio
I am using 25.8.1 - no issues so far. In fact, I needed to upgrade to 25.8.1 in to get LM Studio to properly recognize the 806OS GPU in Windows - before the update LM studio did not consider the ROCm runtime to be compatible. Once upgraded to 25.8.1, LM Studio could properly see the GPU (and allow me to enable the ROCm runtime). So for me, itās the only driver that āworksā (for what I want to do) - at least on the Windows side of things.
Games
I also ran some limited gaming tests for fun with some avg fps numbers. they are all at 1080p though because I was using a portable monitor. Iām noticing some general choppiness but meant to go back and try to fine tune (I suspect shader cache issues). [EDIT: IT WAS THE SHADER CACHE - see my post below] Anyway, here are some really early results that need to be re-run, but it will give some ideaā¦
Doom Dark Ages. seems to work fine usually but did get a crash. Benchmark sentinel station. 1920x1080 Medium - 154fps avg (must have had frame gen on). But HARD CRASH on Utra settings.
Cyberpunk. initially very choppy. i think it was downloading shaders or something. smoother on subsequent runs. 1920x1080. Medium - 213fps avg. Ultra - 157fps avg. (i must have had frame gen on, these results need to be verified)
Assassins Creed Mirage. 1930x1080. High preset - 120fps avg. Ultra High preset - 80+ fps. (no frame gen for sure on this one)
I could do tests on a variety of games with built in benchmarks: Assisinās Creed Mirage, Call of Duty, Counter Strike, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom: The Dark Ages, Doom Eternal, F124, Forza Motorsport, Monster Hunter Wilds (Benchmark only), Shadow of the Tomb Raider. And then I could test games that donāt have built in benchmarks, like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Ratchet and Clank, Hogwarts Legacy, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2, Diablo IV, Half-Life 2 RTX, Marvelās Spiderman Remastered, and many more. If you want csv files from HWinfo, presentmon or maybe even Frameview, I can provide those. Iād just need to know which games and what kind of settings you want at what resolutions.
After some issues with the new driver, I cleared out my shader cache (in Steam), rebooted, and thenall the games ran well. No stuttering. No black screens. No freezes. So that might be pretty important tip for people upgrading to 25.8.1.
Anyway, this time I ran some (built-in) benchmarks on 3 games, at 1080P and 1440P, at Medium and Utra settings, NO FRAME GEN, but with FSR upscaling (set to quality).
Doom the Dark Ages - Reckoning (Hell Boss) - FPS avg
FSR - Quality, 60 sharpness, NO Frame Gen
1080P - Medium: 82.06
1080P - ULTRA: 69.14
1440P - Medium: 57.31
1440P - ULTRA: 49.87
Call of Duty - Black Ops 6 Benchmark - FPS avg
FSR - Quality, 60 sharpness, NO Frame Gen
1080P - Balanced: 158
1080P - ULTRA: 129
1440P - Balanced: 121
1440P - ULTRA: 94
Cyberpunk - Built in benchmark - FPS avg
FSR 3.0 - Quality, 60 sharpness, NO Frame Gen
(this was the only title with FSR 3)
Will do both, but I donāt have any save games for those, and I doubt they have built in benchmarksā¦ so it might be a while. Iām curious too, so Iāll at least load them up and run around.
Half-Life 2 RTX is very choppy. It runs, but even at 1080P it feels very choppy. I canāt get a framerate counter working accurately, but itās got to be in the 20s. Maybe 30 fps. The volumetric fog is very noisy (lots of ādotsā). Disabling volumetric ray tracing fixes the performance issues, but whatās the point of the demo then. This demo was built as a showcase for nVidea RTX (thus the name), so I am not surprised. I am surprised by the performance of ray tracing (lighting only) in cyberpunk (see my other post), but Half-life 2 is no bueno.
Overall its working well. Seems to be unreliable waking from win11 sleep and have had 2 or 3 crashes to black screen but havenāt been able to replicate it after reboot so unsure what sparked the crash. Windows sleep has always been finicky but thought Iād mention it.
For my experience on AMD graphics drivers, I first installed windows, finished all the windows update, and then only used the framework desktop driver bundle āFramework_Desktop_AMD_Ryzen_AI_Max_300_driver_bundle_W11_v101_2025_07_10.exeā and went off to installing software and playing games with no issues, having a good time with the unit.
I must have later on the week, decided to go to the AMD website and download āamd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.9.1-minimalsetup-250901_web.exeā to just download any latest drivers available. After installing this, I hadnāt noticed any problems till a day or so, probably after a reboot. Iād be getting errors[ Amdgpu kernel panics / display crashes - #4 by Nix1 ], bex64, short black screens, driver timeouts, and hard stuttering[Link to video of Rematch - Framework Desktop #community-support] playing games like Rematch or Borderlands 4 which made the game experience utterly unplayable, freezing and hitching every 2-5 seconds for .4-3 seconds at random, and random AMD pop-ups about a ādriver timeoutā. Iād also had a glitching view on my browser when viewing certain pages or Google Maps, Link to video of Google Maps - Framework Discord - #framework-discussion, where moving the map around would show that till the map loaded.
Running AMD cleanup and re-doing the framework driver bundle shown above resolved all of the issues above and have been able to play games without driver timeouts, black screens, crashes, etc. As of right now, with the current install I have, says 25.9.1 in the AMD Adrenalin panel. 2025.0825.0511.2068 in the about page and have been playing with the Variable Graphics Memory set to 16 GB this entire time since first install.
Wasnāt able to edit this post, but believe itās not the AMD drivers causing stuttering/hitching. Issue has came back and Iām still looking and trying solutions. May try to disable the internal Wi-Fi/blue tooth card in bios and use a Wi-Fi USB dongle to see if the hitching stops as I have tons of events in event viewer about mtkwecx which seems to be the internal Wi-Fi card.
Edit: Apparently only using AMD cleanup didnāt stop the re-installed AMD drivers from framework desktop from auto updating. Repeating the AMD cleanup and then running DDU helped ensure the AMD driver wouldnāt auto update/install 25.9.1. Wouldnāt exactly know why, Windows Update in the background or AMD Installer still running in the background? Staying on 24.20.64.01 from the framework driver pack has stopped the hitching and doesnāt seem itāll auto-update in the background this time.
All good, using drivers from AMD is not optimal on the framework desktop, use drivers from framework, as like the own AMDās site says. āAMD recommends OEM-provided driversā, now knowing that others posted issues with this driver and I didnāt notice it updating itself.
Trying out the latest AMD drivers, 25.10.2. So far, seem to not have any hitching, stuttering, or pop-upās regarding driver timeouts. AMDās update logs regarding 25.10.2 seem to add product support for AMD Ryzenā¢ AI 5 330, which isnāt the one in my Framework Desktop but similar APU/CPU?
A better experience compared to prior, accidentally installing 25.9.1, when this forum post suggests to install 25.8.1, but Iāve used the AMD auto installer which downloaded 25.9.1.
Iām having a lot of driver crashes when using Davinci Resolve. I tried a few different drivers and is currently running 25.10.2 again and still getting driver-crashes. Iām also having some issues with DxO PhotoLAB as it does not fully utilize the GPU when rendering.
My only gripe right now is the computer going to sleep and waking up from sleep. Every once in a while it will do the wrong thing and restart my computer. I am used to rebooting once a month. These days I can barely last a whole week without something during the sleep cycle going sideways. I am also on the latest chipset drivers so 25.10.2.
Is the new bundle going to downgrade me to 25.8.1?
Very latest drivers provided by AMD seem to be working great so far on the framework desktop, 25.11.1
Hadnāt encountered any issues regarding hitching, crashing, or stuttering, other than some game anti-cheat engines detect a āviolationā because I opened the AMD overlay ALT+R in-game.
All good, using drivers from AMD is not optimal on the framework desktop, use drivers from framework, as like the own AMDās site says. āAMD recommends OEM-provided driversā, now knowing that others posted issues with this driver and I didnāt notice it updating itself.