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A 5090 is $2000.
Msrp, but try getting your hands on one without a bulk order and/or camping out in a tent all weekend. I have seen people in my area buying pre-biult machines as they often cost less than trying to buy an individual card.
NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
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Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
#32Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
#33You guys that continue to compare DGX Spark to the Mac Studios, please remember two things: 1. Virtually every model that you'd run was developed on Nvidia gear and will run on Spark. 2. Spark has fast-as-hell interconnects. The sort of interconnects that one would want to use in an actual AI DC, so you can use more than one Spark at the same time, and RDMA, and actually start to figure out how things work the way th…
Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
#34Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
#35Could I write code that runs on Spark and effortlessly run it on a big GB300 system with no code changes?
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#37Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
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Well, that’s disappointing since the Mac Studio 128GB is $3,499. If Apple happens to launch a Mac Mini with 128GB RAM it would eat Nvidia Sparks’ lunch every day.
Only if it runs CUDA, MLX / Metal isn't comparable as ecosystem. People that keep pushing for Apple gear tend to forget Apple has decided what industry considers industry standards, proprietary or not, aren't made available on their hardware. Even if Metal is actually a cool API to program for.
Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
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Hi, author here. I crowd-sourced the devices for benchmarking from my friends. It just happened that one of my friend has this device.
FYI you should have used llama.cpp to do the benchmarks. It performs almost 20x faster than ollama for the gpt-oss-120b model. Here are some samples results on my spark: ggml_cuda_init: found 1 CUDA devices: Device 0: NVIDIA GB10, compute capability 12.1, VMM: yes | model | size | params | backend | ngl | n_ubatch | fa | test | t/s | | ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | --: | ----…
So 38.54 t/s on 120B? Have you tested filling the context too?
Re: NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
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FYI you should have used llama.cpp to do the benchmarks. It performs almost 20x faster than ollama for the gpt-oss-120b model. Here are some samples results on my spark: ggml_cuda_init: found 1 CUDA devices: Device 0: NVIDIA GB10, compute capability 12.1, VMM: yes | model | size | params | backend | ngl | n_ubatch | fa | test | t/s | | ------------------------------ | ---------: | ---------: | ---------- | --: | ----…
Curious to how this compares to running on a Mac.