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Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by sylware » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC

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Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by nycdatasci » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC

rsolva wrote: post #60

Will NVIDIA get a monopoly on providing laptops and desktops with a lot of RAM going forward?

No. You can get a PowerBook today with 128 GB ram.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1957120-REG/apple_mbp...

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by LatencyKills » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:03 PM UTC

First:

> "Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows," said Satya Nadella, chairman and head of Microsoft.

Then:

> However, Ian Fogg, Research Director at industry analyst firm FDM CCS Insight said the change was "likely to come with a significant price tag" and Nvidia would be targeting "those looking for workstation-class performance".

So... not every desk with Windows.

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by Bulat_Ziganshin » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

try-working wrote: post #4

jqbd wrote: post #3

They made their own x86 CPU? Or was that part outsourced? Ok ARM MediaTek.

ARM cpu made by MediaTek.

I think that Nvidia made GPU and CPU, and Mediatek made other parts of SoC necessary for a notebook. Grace is Nvidia's own CPU ARM core

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by comandillos » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

So they have basically reused the same hardware as in the DGX Spark (GB10)... That chip isn't great for LLM inference actually.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/gb10.c4342 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by twobitshifter » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

sylware wrote: post #71

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Right, the export controls are only forcing Chinese AI to innovate, build their own fabs, and make training and inference more efficient. The end game of this will be NVIDIA chips won’t be wanted because you can get a $50 chinese chip running a ternary model that is competitive with claude in English and is much better in Mandarin.

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by pedrocr » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

pella wrote: post #7

boredatoms wrote: post #5

Is this just dgx spark, but a laptop?

yes, same chip + Windows + Screen - ConnectX-7 Smart NIC

+ battery too. I've wondered if a mini pc with battery would make for a good form factor. I often move between places where I have a desk with a screen but still use a laptop because I want to just suspend and resume. If a mini pc had a small battery just to hold its RAM while suspended I could move between places and just plug in a single USB-C cable and have my full workstation up and running. The thermals could be better than in a laptop and having a built-in UPS better than with a desktop. But last time I checked no one packaged things like that.

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by Bulat_Ziganshin » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

zer0zzz wrote: post #34

pella wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, same chip + Windows + Screen - ConnectX-7 Smart NIC

What about the desktop version? It seemed like it is not a dgx since it has the CPUs cores done by mediatek

They didn't say that Mediatek made the cpu sores. Grace is NVidia's own cpu arm cores. I bet that Mediatek made other parts of SoC necessary for a notebook

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by SomeHacker44 » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC

Bulat_Ziganshin wrote: post #74

try-working wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ARM cpu made by MediaTek.

I think that Nvidia made GPU and CPU, and Mediatek made other parts of SoC necessary for a notebook. Grace is Nvidia's own CPU ARM core

I believe Grace is an ARM designed core. Vera is the nVidia designed core.

Re: Nvidia RTX Spark

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Post by Bulat_Ziganshin » Mon, Jun 01, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC

ma2kx wrote: post #27

Unified RAM means its soldered to the mainboard, right? I'm not sure if I like this. Sure for a laptop this might be not a big problem but if this ARM ecosystem is a success it will spread to desktop computers and I fear we could lose the existing modularity.

No, but LPDDR means soldered, there are no LPDDR dimms