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[–] brucethemoose 50 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (31 children)

Holy moly this is awesome! I am in for the 128GB SKU.

That's 96GB of usable VRAM! And way more CPU bandwidth than any desktop Zen chip.

I know people are going to complain about non upgradable memory, but you can just replace the board, and in this case it’s so worth it for the speed/power efficiency. This isn’t artificial crippling, it physically has to be soldered, at least until LPCAMM catches on.

My only ask would be a full X16 (or at least a physical X16/electrical x8) PCIe slot or breakout ribbon. X4 would be a bit of a bottleneck for some GPUs/workloads… Does Strix Halo even support that?

[–] alleycat 8 points 6 days ago (5 children)

What's a SKU? Google just says "Stock Keeping Unit", but I don't think that's correct in this context.

[–] officermike 30 points 6 days ago

It's correct. A product with various options will have each combination of options under a different SKU. It's a singular number that identifies an exact version of a product.

[–] chaospatterns 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In this context, SKU refers to a variant of this product. That is the correct acronym as I understand

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

its used to mean a new product that you specifically have to keep track of. e. g if you found framework desktops in a store, it wouldnt all be sold under 1 sku. all 3 ram capacities would be 3 different bar codes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

a new product

not only new

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Basically another word for 'Product Number' or 'P/N' for short.

[–] brucethemoose 4 points 6 days ago

As others said.

In this context it would be one of the CPU/Memory combinations framework offers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors#Strix_Halo_(Zen_5/RDNA3.5/XDNA2_based)

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