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Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max Offers Excellent, Linux-Friendly Performance (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Hagenman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I’ve seen this come up before, I think the AI Max needs soldered RAM due to latency that socketed RAM introduces. There were some older post where an AMD engineer even hopped in saying they tested but it had a big impact on performance.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First time in hearing this, so thank you!

Soldered RAM is really faster then socketed RAM?
I can't really see why, when only looking at the connection level.

But soldered RAM also means, they only need to support exactly this RAM.
So they can leave out some stuff handing different speeds and can optimise for exactly this RAM.

Is that the reason?
I've actually never thought about that until now...

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

More electrical interference from the actual socket, high speed RAM is fussy about things like that, and trace length etc.