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Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

chrsw wrote: post #58

jsheard wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This Asus box costs $3000, and the cheapest Mac Studio with the same amount of RAM costs $3500, or $3700 if you also match the SSD capacity. You do get about twice as much memory bandwidth out of the Mac though.

What's the cheapest way to get the same memory and memory bandwidth as a Mac Studio but also CUDA support?

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Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by addaon » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

whatever1 wrote: post #31

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.

Laptop-class bandwidth without that annoying portability.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by dinkleberg » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

This is a tangent, but the little pop up example for their ai chat bot to try and entice me to use it was something along the lines of “what are the specs?”

How great would it be if instead of shoving these bots to help decipher the marketing speak they just had the specs right up front?

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by varispeed » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

I was really hyped about this, but then I watched videos and it's just meh.

What is the purpose of this thing?

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by jsheard » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

baby_souffle wrote: post #44

porphyra wrote: post #37

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Probably LLM slop, but also it's the same GB10 chip as the DGX Spark so why would the memory bandwidth be significantly different?

As far as I can tell these are all the same hardware just different enclosures. I'm not sure why Nvidia went this route given that they have a first party device. Usually you only see this when the original manufacturer doesn't want to be in the distribution or support game.

If this is anything like their consumer graphics cards, the first-party version will only be available in the dozen or so countries where Nvidia has established direct distribution channels and they'll defer to the third parties everywhere else.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by embedding-shape » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:33 PM UTC

chrsw wrote: post #58

jsheard wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This Asus box costs $3000, and the cheapest Mac Studio with the same amount of RAM costs $3500, or $3700 if you also match the SSD capacity. You do get about twice as much memory bandwidth out of the Mac though.

What's the cheapest way to get the same memory and memory bandwidth as a Mac Studio but also CUDA support?

CUDA is only on nvidia GPUs, I guess a RTX Pro 6000 would get you close, two of them are 192GB in total. Vastly increased memory bandwidth too. Maybe two/four of the older A100/A6000 could do the trick too.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by bigyabai » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:33 PM UTC

chrsw wrote: post #58

jsheard wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This Asus box costs $3000, and the cheapest Mac Studio with the same amount of RAM costs $3500, or $3700 if you also match the SSD capacity. You do get about twice as much memory bandwidth out of the Mac though.

What's the cheapest way to get the same memory and memory bandwidth as a Mac Studio but also CUDA support?

Somehow, it is still cheaper to own 10x RTX 3060s than it is to buy a 120gb Mac.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by colordrops » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

simlevesque wrote: post #24

npalli wrote: 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

"I don't think I'll use this heavily"

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by embedding-shape » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

MangoToupe wrote: post #32

simlevesque wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cuda is king

Still? Really? Why?

For how shit it all is, it's still the easiest to use, with most available resources when you inevitable need to dig through stuff. Just things like nsight GUI and available debugging options ends up bringing together a better developer experience compared to other ecosystems. I do hope the competitors get better though because the current de facto monopoly helps no-one.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

chrsw wrote: post #58

jsheard wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This Asus box costs $3000, and the cheapest Mac Studio with the same amount of RAM costs $3500, or $3700 if you also match the SSD capacity. You do get about twice as much memory bandwidth out of the Mac though.

What's the cheapest way to get the same memory and memory bandwidth as a Mac Studio but also CUDA support?

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