I’ll buy a framework when they finally add the Coreboot support they promised.
I did a Passmark compare against their Intel offering - the i7-1360P (offered at the same price), and the difference is incredible - 24% better performance overall, at only a 1% higher TDP (and only a 0.5% lower single thread).
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5322vs5198/AMD-Ryzen-7-7840U-vs-Intel-i7-1360P
Both mainboards are in stock and being sold for $699.
1% higher rated TDP, but real world power consumption is a much different world.
What are your PL1 and PL2s set to? My 11th Gen. i9 has a “TDP” of 45 watts, but really it’s 109. Same for any modern CPU from Intel. Intels website says base power is 28 watts, but “maximum turbo power” is 64.
AMDs website says the 7840 has an AMD Configurable TDP of 35-54W, and they’re kinda falling down the same trap that Intel pioneered. But their power consumption in all loads but balls out is still typically much better, and IMO that’s much more important in a laptop than balls out performance.
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13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 SeriesMakes For A Great Linux Laptop
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Great machines
I’m rocking this right now with Ubuntu and it’s really nice. I’ve actually run into a lot of weirdness but it’s entirely the fault of Ubuntu (keyring doesn’t recognize fingerprint reader?) and I’ll probably switch to something else soon. That said, the build quality is top notch and I can’t believe how fast the 7040u is, especially considering it fits in a laptop.
I’ll probably put Windows on a usb drive for photoshop and a few other things but I don’t think I’m ever going back to it as a daily driver.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
I’ve been testing out the Framework Laptop 13 the past month and after a BIOS update has been working out wonderfully on Linux.
Another pleasant change since looking at the original Framework laptop in 2021 has been the company providing even better Linux support.
The only notable Linux support caveat for the current hardware is possible fingerprint reader issues if not running on the latest firmware.
The embedded controller is based on the Google Chromebook EC and making use of Zephyr.
One step further it would be great if the Framework 13 AMD laptop made use of Coreboot, but alas that’s not the case.
Hopefully though that will become more of a reality as AMD OpenSIL hits production in ~2026 and that we continue seeing more open-source firmware efforts invested by Framework.
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