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grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

“To enable the massive 256GB/s memory bandwidth that Ryzen AI Max delivers, the LPDDR5x is soldered,” writes Framework CEO Nirav Patel in a post about today’s announcements. “We spent months working with AMD to explore ways around this but ultimately determined that it wasn’t technically feasible to land modular memory at high throughput with the 256-bit memory bus. Because the memory is non-upgradeable, we’re being deliberate in making memory pricing more reasonable than you might find with other brands.”

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simple@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
To be fair it starts with 32GB of RAM, which should be enough for most people. I know it’s a bit ironic that Framework have a non-upgradeable part, but I can’t see myself buying a 128GB machine and hoping to raise it any time in the future.

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- Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  seems like they’re trying to capture a different market entirely.
  
  Yes that’s the problem.
  
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah hugely disappointed by this tbh. They should have made a gaming capable steam machine in cooperation with valve instead :)

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah.
  
  But that’s AMD’s fault, as they gimped the GPU so much on the lower end. There should be a “cheap” 8-core, 1-CCD part with close to the full 40 CUs… But there is not.
  
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- 4am@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They still could; this seems aimed at the AI/ML research space TBH
  
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Toes@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Would 256GB/s be too slow for large llms?

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