Framework Laptop 12: An Upgrade-Friendly, Convertible 2-in-1 Linux Laptop

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 18 June 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT. Page 6 of 9. 40 Comments.
x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
x265 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
VVenC benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Fast. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Ultra Fast. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.

For most workloads the raw performance of the Core i5 1334U was comparable to a Tiger Lake Core i7 1165G7.

Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Text Generation 128. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 512. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
Llama.cpp benchmark with settings of Backend: CPU BLAS, Model: Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-Q8_0, Test: Prompt Processing 512. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
Whisper.cpp benchmark with settings of Model: ggml-base.en, Input: 2016 State of the Union. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
Whisper.cpp benchmark with settings of Model: ggml-small.en, Input: 2016 State of the Union. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.

With only one channel memory supported by Framework Laptop 12, it ended up being in last place for AI workloads like Llama.cpp on the CPU that are quite demanding upon memory bandwidth.

PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 1, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
PyTorch benchmark with settings of Device: CPU, Batch Size: 16, Model: ResNet-50. Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a was the fastest.
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