It's been almost 30 years, and a single letter changed. When will we get the Sparkstation, the UltraSpark and the SuperSpark?
SuperSpark and then UltraSpark. And then we can get SparkCube, Sparkii, and SparkiiU.
Nvidia RTX Spark
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Re: Nvidia RTX Spark
#82How would these compare to a MacBook Pro M5 in terms of performance and price?
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#83I'm surprised they released this thing. Brand perception is probably a lot more important to Nvidia than whatever sales they could get from this thing, and if it's basically just DGX Spark, it's likely to underwhelm.
I've heard there's still a large backlog of both software problems, and hardware problems with the platform. The software problems could be fixed with time, but they'll still give a shitty first impression. I'd have thought Nvidia would just bury this and try again with a successor run of silicon with a new design.
This thing seems practically destined to just be a repeat of the Snapdragon laptop debacle.
Re: Nvidia RTX Spark
#84So they have basically reused the same hardware as in the DGX Spark (GB10)... That chip isn't great for LLM inference actually. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gb10.c4342 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/
>That chip isn't great for LLM inference actually.
Why do I have the feeling it's been intentionally made to be bad in order to get you on to their most pensive datacenter gear.
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#85It’s a step in the right direction, but there’s still a long ways to go in terms of smaller LLMs ability and hardware costs
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#86>Lenovo, HP, Dell and Apple accounted for almost 75% of the world's PC market in the first three months of this year, according to research firm Gartner.
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-4-10...
Re: Nvidia RTX Spark
#87The fact they advertise it as some step forward in PCs is outright bizzare.
It's just worse Strix Halo, as you are landing square in middle of Windows ARM problems
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#88It was wintel (windows + intel) before. This will be what? Windia? Wintek?
Nvindows
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Right, the export controls are only forcing Chinese AI to innovate, build their own fabs, and make training and inference more efficient. The end game of this will be NVIDIA chips won’t be wanted because you can get a $50 chinese chip running a ternary model that is competitive with claude in English and is much better in Mandarin.
I would order that in a heartbeat. Even if it required proprietary Chinese-government drivers. I would try to segregate in a VM without internet or something. Please make this happen! Tokens cost too much in the current system.
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#90Will NVIDIA get a monopoly on providing laptops and desktops with a lot of RAM going forward?
No. You can get a PowerBook today with 128 GB ram. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1957120-REG/apple_mbp...
Or get an AMD 395 laptop or mini PC for half the price of an equivalent mac device