A Deep Dive Into The Power & Thermals For The Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max
Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 18 August 2025 at 11:40 AM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 27 Comments.
Even in demanding multi-threaded workloads there wasn't any performance benefit to running the Framework Desktop at full fan speeds or having the front intake fan. The full fan speed run obviously yielded the biggest thermal impact with around 4~5 degree lower operating temperatures under full load.
For Llama.cpp AI benchmarks there wasn't any real performance difference either.
Rendering with Blender across all the CPU cores was showing the 4~5 degree temperature drop from the full fan speed configuration with the Noctua front intake fan but no performance benefit.