I don't understand Framework's desktop offerings. For laptops their open approach makes sense, but desktops are already about as hackable and DIY as they come.
We took the Ryzen AI Max, which is nominally a high-end laptop processor, and built it into a standard PC form factor (Mini-ITX). It’s a more open/extensible mini PC using mobile technology.
I love the look of it and if I were in the market right now it would be high on the list, but I do understand the confusion here - is it just a cool product you wanted to make or does it somehow link to what I assumed your mission was - to reduce e-waste?
And given that some people are afraid of malicious software in some brands of mini-PCs on the market, to have some more trusted product around will also be an asset.
It’s an x86 PC with unified RAM based on AMD’s new AI cpus. Pretty unique offering. Similar to Mac studio but you can run Linux or Windows on it, and it’s cheaper too.
Yes, this announcement was a nice surprise for us. We’re going to test out exactly that setup.
Awesome, where can we find out the results?
We’ll likely post on our social accounts to start with, but eventually we plan to write more blog posts about using Framework Desktop for inference.
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Can’t wait.
Is the AMD GPU stack reliable for running models like llama these days?
Running yes, training is questionable
I don't understand Framework's desktop offerings. For laptops their open approach makes sense, but desktops are already about as hackable and DIY as they come.
We took the Ryzen AI Max, which is nominally a high-end laptop processor, and built it into a standard PC form factor (Mini-ITX). It’s a more open/extensible mini PC using mobile technology.
I love the look of it and if I were in the market right now it would be high on the list, but I do understand the confusion here - is it just a cool product you wanted to make or does it somehow link to what I assumed your mission was - to reduce e-waste?
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And given that some people are afraid of malicious software in some brands of mini-PCs on the market, to have some more trusted product around will also be an asset.
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It’s an x86 PC with unified RAM based on AMD’s new AI cpus. Pretty unique offering. Similar to Mac studio but you can run Linux or Windows on it, and it’s cheaper too.
It's a lot slower than a Mac Studio. Significantly slower CPU, GPU, memory bandwidth.
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