We made a lot of major product announcements throughout the year, and we have one more big one for you today. We're excited to announce the new Framework Laptop 16, now with AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors and a graphics upgrade to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU! Pre-orders are open now starting at $1,499 USD, with first shipments this November. We first introduced Framework Laptop 16 in 2023 as a high-performance, desktop-replacement 16" laptop that carried in not only our usual repairability and upgradeability, but two bold new systems: fully customizable input and generational upgradeability of graphics. On the latter, especially since so many other laptop brands have failed at it, we knew that the only way we could prove upgradeability is by actually delivering an upgrade. We've spent the last two years working with the teams at AMD, NVIDIA, and Compal to not only make a new NVIDIA-powered Graphics Module, but also make it fully backwards compatible with the original Framework Laptop 16. That means any current owner can pick up the new module and get the latest generation of graphics!

This is a huge leap in performance and capability. The GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU brings NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture with 8 GB of GDDR7 and delivers a 30-40% increase in gaming framerates over our original Radeon RX 7700S Graphics Module. We made a couple of other improvements too. The GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU now enables display output and power input over the rear USB-C port. We also revamped the thermal system, switching to Honeywell phase change thermal interface material and reoptimizing the fan blade geometry and controller IC for reduced noise while supporting 100 W sustained TGP. The discrete GPU in the Graphics Module can send a display signal directly to the internal laptop display through a mux on the Mainboard, and we've updated our 165 Hz 2560x1600 panel to support NVIDIA G-SYNC. We're also keeping the Radeon RX 7700S Graphics Module available as a configuration option with the updated thermal system for all of you who may prefer AMD offerings, especially for the maturity of their open-source Linux drivers.