I have delayed my purchase for the next gen 300 series, but its only arriving in a smaller 12" laptops. Can that be instaled in a 16" or is 16" laptops geting their own amd 300 series mainborad?
After a quick search i havent found any info regarding this info.
If I had to guess, probably at the same time with new GPU modules, I believe AMD is announcing something sometime next month, so we’ll probably find out around that time or shortly after.
You got that one mixed up. The Ryzen AI 300 series is only available for the Framework Laptop 13. The 12" one is only going to have intel APUs as per announcement.
What framework did was a great lack of respect for the customer, the 16 laptop needed the 9955hx3d to at least announce it for April or June, the 7945hx, because the upgradeable philosophy makes a lot of sense in these computers with this range of processors
strix point with a maximum of 12 cores, which were already burned because it came out last year, they released it as the latest, that was a joke, and the people applauding it was a joke having an alliance with AMD and they did not release the 9955hx3d that would skyrocket sales, and very soon a hard graphics, and not what they did
About Strix Halo only on desktop PC hahahahahahahaha, is this a company or is it a circus?
I am also interested in this, as the discrete GPU, larger screen and greater number of expansion modules is very appealing.
I love my power-sipping Laptop 13 with the Intel Tiger Lake Core-i7, though am debating whether I should spend the money on a (recently-announced) AMD mainboard upgrade for it, versus a larger, newer chassis.
I wonder if they’re holding off on it until they can announce new GPUs for the laptop, I was just looking at benchmark, the Radeon 8050S in used in AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 seems to be identical to 7700S (though not sure about the TDP used for this).
If AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 was available, I’d have ordered it right away, even if it was capped at 45-55w TDP, it’s just about perfect for the usecase I have with FW 16, 7840HS + 780M works great, but having that huge jump in gaming performance without needing to grab 7700S would be nice.
I think there are other reasons they don’t want to bring the AI Max series to the FW16. AMD is currently requiring soldered, LPDDR5X memory with the AI Max APUs. Also, it only has 16 PCIe lanes, and only 5 high-speed USB ports natively. They may be able to work around this, but I don’t think it’s quite the perfect fit for the FW 16 that Framework would have liked it to be. They mentioned at the recent press event that they really liked the AI Max 395+, but going with soldered RAM in the FW 16 is just something they didn’t want to do. But they really wanted to utilize that chip in something, which is why they came up with the Framework desktop.
Even with the downsides, I would jump on an AI Max 395+ mainboard real fast.