Ryzen AI Halo

The thing is - you ain't buying a system that runs you frontier grade models for $1200/$2400. For $1200 you have a choice between R9700 or Arc B70. So 32GB VRAM and around 600-640GB/s memory bandwidth. This will smoothly run you Qwen3.5 27B or 35B MoE, both roughly comparable to Anthropic's Haiku, a

This. TBH I just want to see AMD respond with something other than "but Strix Halo is better" while ignoring the massive difference in TDP/thermal profile.

From what we know, it is physically impossible. The placement of the RAM chips themselves is an important part of how it achieves an extremely wide memory buss at low latency. According to Framework, when they first looked into making a computer with Strix Halo, they asked AMD to try and find a way

I wasn’t expecting the claim of 82% gain vs Strix Point to hold up in third party reviews, but here we are. The gap is pretty astonishing, almost painful considering APUs used to be AMD’s unique thing. Also, interesting point they raise: because Panther Lake gets the full featureset of XeSS 3 (SS +

Unified memory can, and in Apple's case, does mean you can use the same data in CPU and GPU code without having to move the data back and forth. Apple Silicon has a memory bandwidth of 68 GB/s on the M1 chip (non-Pro/Max), the slowest processor package for macOS-operated computers, e.g. the MacBook

Forgot to add, a few interesting details I learned from the engineers and the team: It took them forever to find the right SD card read that would fit into the expansion card The audio expansion card in fact uses a different DAC than FW13's motherboards. It uses the CX31993 DAC which if you are an a

Worse, there's AI Max+ Pro

AMD have largely been "winning by doing nothing" due to their better driver support stack for gaming on iGPUs, rather than actually throwing superior hardware at it. It's almost ironic how AMD's mobile chipsets are now the "Intel 14nm+++++" of this generation. Constant minor refreshes or even straig

The Framework Desktop is an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 board. It doesn't go higher than 128GB, so it's almost definitely just 128GB.

The LPCAMM2 design is part of an ongoing effort to replace soldered LPDDR in mobile and ultra-thin systems with memory that is both upgradeable and space-efficient. Cannot wait especially now that Apple and many laptops and mini PCs and AMD's Strix Halo desktops are mostly using soldered LPDDR, the