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When the Framework came out, I was excited, but not in the market for a laptop. I've been waiting for the chance to buy one, especially as they announced more
by dmayle 4y ago
When the Framework came out, I was excited, but not in the market for a laptop. I've been waiting for the chance to buy one, especially as they announced more and more things that I'm interested in. Now that I'm finally in the market, I was waiting eagerly for this new announcement.
The only question I'm left with now, which Framework to get? Do I pre-order the AMD 7040, or do I wait for the new 16 so that I can get a GPU? I'm thinking about going the AMD route now, buying the dGPU option they have and using it as an eGPU when it becomes available, and then switching to the 16-inch chassis when I'm ready...
- brucethemoose2 4y agoThe AMD 7040 series is gonna be amazing. They even have an NPU which (theoretically) should run models reasonably well without a dGPU, M1 style... but we will see how that shapes up. The 16" will provably perform better though, if you can wait.
- schmorptron 4y agoHave AMD said anything about whether the NPU will be OK for a little bit of training as well, or just inference?
- noveltyaccount 4y agoThe 780M integrated graphics on the 7040 apu is supposed to be something like 30% better than in the current-gen 680M. Search YouTube for 680M gaming and see if it's good enough for you! https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-s-Radeon-780M-iGPU-beats-the-Nvidia-GTX-1650-Max-Q-laptop-dGPU-in-new-Geekbench-test.701261.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-s-Radeon-780M-iGPU-beats-t...