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Any good ideas for what these can be used for? I am still trying to think a use case that a Ryzen AI Max/MacBook or a plain gaming gpu cannot cover.
Looks like a pretty useful offering, 128Gb Memory Unified, with the ability to be chained. IN the Uk release price looks to be £2999.99 Nice to see AI Inference becoming available to us all, rather than using a GPU ..3090etc. https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-ascent-gx10-desktop-ai-...
All Sparks only have a memory bandwidth of 270 GB/s though (about the same as the Ryzen AI Max+ 395), while the 3090 has 930 GB/s. (Edit: GB of course, not MB, thanks buildbot)
I wonder why they even added this to the FAQ if they're gonna weasel their way around it and not answer properly? > 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 LL…
Probably LLM slop, but also it's the same GB10 chip as the DGX Spark so why would the memory bandwidth be significantly different?
"Nvidia dgx os", ugh. It would be a lot more enticing if that thing could run stock Linux.
You're free to lift the kernel and any drivers/libraries and run them on your distribution of choice, it'll just be hacky.
- Price: $3k / $5k
- Memory: same (128GB)
- Memory bandwidth: ~273GB/s / 546GB/sec
- SSD: same (1 TB)
- GPU advantage: ~5x-10x depending on memory bottleneck
- Network: same 10Gbe (via TB)
- Direct cluster: 200Gb / 80Gb
- Portable: No / Yes
- Free Mac included: No / Yes
- Free monitor: No / Yes
- Linux out of the box: Yes / No
- CUDA Dev environment: Yes : No
Looks like a pretty useful offering, 128Gb Memory Unified, with the ability to be chained. IN the Uk release price looks to be £2999.99 Nice to see AI Inference becoming available to us all, rather than using a GPU ..3090etc. https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-ascent-gx10-desktop-ai-...
All Sparks only have a memory bandwidth of 270 GB/s though (about the same as the Ryzen AI Max+ 395), while the 3090 has 930 GB/s. (Edit: GB of course, not MB, thanks buildbot)
I've finetuned diffusion models streaming from an SSD without noticeable speed penalty at high enough batchsize.
Funny to wakeup and see this on the front page - I literally just bought a pair last night for work (and play) somewhat on a whim, after comparing the available models. This one was available the soonest & cheapest, CDW is giving 100 off even, so 2900 pre tax.
I presume this is not yet in your possession. Please do let us know how it goes.
What a shame. This would have been a much more powerful machine if it was wrapped around AMD products. At least with this, you get to pay both the Nvidia and the Asus tax!