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Re: Asus Ascent GX10

#21
post #14

If you touch the image when scrolling on mobile then it opens when you lift your finger. Then when you press the cross in the corner to close the image, the search button behind it is activated. How can a serious company not notice these glaring issues in their websites?

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Re: Asus Ascent GX10

#22
post #18

From the FAQ… doesn’t seem promising when they ask and then evade a crucial question. > What is the memory bandwidth supported by Ascent GX10? AI applications often require a bigger memory. With the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU that supports 128GB of unified memory, ASUS Ascent GX10 is an AI supercomputer that enables faster training, better real-time inference, and support larger models like LLMs.

It sounds good, but it ultimately fails to comprehend the question: ignoring the word "bandwidth" and just spewing pretty nonsense.

Which is appropriate, given the applications!

I see that they mention it uses LPDDR5x, so bandwidth will not be nearly as fast as something using HBM or GDDR7, even if bus width is large.

Edit: I found elsewhere that the GB10 has a 256bit L5X-9400 memory interface, allowing for ~300GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

#24
post #8

Seems this is basically DGX Spark with 1TB of disk so about $1000 bucks cheaper. DGX Spark has not been received well (at least online, Carmack saying it runs at half the spec, low memory bandwidth etc.) so perhaps this is way to reduce buyers regret, you are out only $3000 and not $4000 (with DGX Spark).

Simon Willison seems to like his:https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/codex-spark-gpt-oss

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

#26
post #16

This bit of the FAQ was such a non-answer to their own FAQ, you really have to wonder: >> What is the memory bandwidth supported by Ascent GX10? > AI applications often require a bigger memory. With the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU that supports 128GB of unified memory, ASUS Ascent GX10 is an AI supercomputer that enables faster training, better real-time inference, and support larger models like LLMs.

> This bit of the FAQ was such a non-answer to their own FAQ, you really have to wonder:

You don't have to wonder: I bet they're using generative AI to speed up delivery velocity.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

#30
These AI boxes resemble gaming consoles in both form factor and architecture, makes me curious if they could make good gaming machines.
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