There are #Framework13 models now with #AMD CPUs! This is getting interesting for many reasons! 👀
1. The AMD Ryzen AI CPUs come with a #NPU based on #XDNA from the #Xilinx acquisition. In practice #AMDXDNA only made it into Linux 6.14 (e.g. in the very recent Fedora 42) and there is no end user support as of today making the NPU dead hardware as of today and probably most of 2025.
2. The AMD Ryzen CPUs come with AVX512 and that's working end to end unlike whatever the f #Intel is doing there.
@djh as much as I love what AMD is doing, not everything is great:
1. Their weird USB port usage restrictions (see image and https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/expansion-card-functionality-on-framework-laptop-13-amd-ryzen-7040-series-SkrVx7gAh
2. Their OSS GPU drivers are not nearly as good as the Intel ones. Either use mesa (which is unofficial but works OKish) or use ROCM (OSS and official but harder to install)
@crepererum The expansion port assignment I've seen. It's a bit annoying but tbh not a deal breaker for me especially once configured.
So far no problems with the GPU but let me try it some more weeks as a daily driver to see how it goes. I can see folks online reporting issues; let's see.
They're really a hardware company still struggling with software it looks like unfortunately.
@crepererum for the record the Fedora 42 default install on this one is using the AMDGPU open source driver by default. As usual the Arch wiki delivers 😍
Daniel
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