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Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

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Re: Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

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I am not sure how many people will run AI models locally. It still seems like a niche application to me.

I'd say this relates directly to the cost of running AI models remotely.

And we won't know what the actual cost will be until AI vendors recover the huge pile of cash they've dumped into development (plus interest).

Re: Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

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Does this person know that this is the same GB chip in the DGX Spark? It isn't some proposed thing, it's a chip loads of people have on their desk right now, and there are endless benchmarks of it.

Decent single core (a long ways from Apple level, but decent), but it makes up for it in cores to provide M5 level performance, CPU wise. Memory bandwidth it is kind of starved, at 1/6th many GPUs.

They got Microsoft to customize Windows for the RTX Spark, and will likely have to brutally throttle it when running as a laptop (it's literally a 140W TDP chip), and that's neat. It's going to be a very expensive laptop.

Re: Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

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128GB of unified memory is a dream come true for local LLMs. VRAM has been the ultimate bottleneck for developers.

It could help with exploding external LLM costs. Interesting to see how the adaption will be, which will mainly depend on the price.
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