Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025

humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Problem is almost no laptop has Strix Halo. Not even the Frameworks.

  And rumors are its successor may be much better, so the investment could be, err, questionable.

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  • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Iirc this was due to the design of the chip. Framework said the bandwidth needed for the strix halo is waaaaaaayyyyy faster than the bandwidth of the sodimms that laptops have.
    Hence they made the desktop, only thing they could think of doing with those classes of apu’s

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s just soldered LPDDR5X. Framework could’ve fixed it to a motherboard just like the desktop.

      I think the problem is cooling and power. The laptop’s internal PSU and heatsink would have to be overhauled for Strix Halo, which would break backwards compatibility if it was even possible to cram in. Same with bigger AMD GPUs and such; people seem to underestimate the engineering and budget constraints they’re operating under.

      That being said, way more laptop makers and motherboard makers could have picked up Strix Halo. I’d kill for a desktop motherboard with a PCIe x8 GPU slot.

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      • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The limitations isnt in the lpddr5x ram, but in the sodimm interface.

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