Framework Ryzen 5 vs Ryzen 7?

[Hyroshi]

Hello all,

 

I am going to upgrade my laptop soon (I am daily driving the Thinkpad t480 with 8th gen i5), and the Framework is the perfect one for me, I love tinkering and stuff. I am trying to decide though, with the cost of both in mind, to get the Ryzen 5 or 7. I have never had a Ryzen system, so I don't really know what they all mean, but it has the 7640U and the 7840U respectively. A decent chunk of my work is in the browser, but I also use Adobe programs and various audio programs like Ableton, which need more performance. I've heard that the 7840U has a better GPU than the 7640U? In addition I develop things, and while I don't use virtual machines often, sometimes I may want to run Kali off of Fedora, so would the 6/8 cores make a difference?

Thank you for the help, I don't know much about this kind of stuff in computers, I just build and program them haha.

[Heats with Nvidia]

I have a Framework 13 with the 7640U and so far, i never regretted getting it and not the R7 version. I have copious amounts of websites open and run Linux on it. In short: The 7640U is absolutely not a bad CPU, but the 7840U is a little faster in all respects. But its far more expensive and really only makes sense if you really need it. Even some light gaming hasn`t been a problem so far. In contrast, getting 32GB of RAM and a bigger SSD, for me was a far more worthwile use of that money than two more cores and a little more graphics power.

[Hyroshi]

Ah yeah that makes sense. I too have many websites open all the time haha, my record is 532 tabs in Firefox. Good to hear that gaming is good, while I don't run intensive games, if a computer can run more intense games, then I've found it can do Solidworks, which is another use.

Thank you for the help!

[Hyroshi]

Just now, LloydLynx said:

How did you count this? And... how did you accomplish it...?

Haha yeah its a little strange. It was during a time when Fedora was acting up (back in the early 37 days), and so I didn't want to restart. I had a lot of tabs open for DnD, school, online shopping, and music. I counted it because a friend was over and said I had "like 700" so I counted to show I'm not that insane. I have a little counter on my white board with my most tabs (like the "time since last accident" signs in cartoons lol).