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Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by wmf » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:02 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #88

One past related thread. Any others? The Asus Ascent GX10 a Nvidia GB10 Mini PC with 128GB of Memory and 200GbE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425935 - March 2025 (50 comments) Edit: added via wmf's comment below: "DGX Spark has only half the advertised performance" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739844 - Oct 2025 (24 comments) Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality - htt…

It's the same as DGX Spark so there are several:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586776

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713835

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43409281

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739844

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by woodson » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:03 PM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #67

chrsw wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The Mac will be much smaller and use less power, though.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by MangoToupe » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:04 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #71

MangoToupe wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still? Really? Why?

Better support than MPS and nothing Apple is shipping today can compete with even the high end consumer CUDA devices in actual speed.

Presumably the second point is irrelevant if you're choosing among devices with unified memory.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by guerrilla » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:05 PM UTC

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #22

abtinf wrote: 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/se…

It doesn't sound good at all. It sounds like malicious evasion and marketing bullshit.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by tgma » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

WhitneyLand wrote: post #81

tassadarforaiur wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the networking side. M4 max does have thunderbolt 5, 80gbps advertised. Would ip over TB not allow for significantly faster interconnects when clustering Macs?

Made the correction to 80Gb/sec thank you. W.r.t ip, the fastest I’m aware of is 25Gb/s via TB5 adapters like from Sonnet.

You should not be using an adapter to get IP over Thunderbolt. Just connect a Thunderbolt5 cable to both machines.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by exe34 » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

guerrilla wrote: post #94

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/se…

It doesn't sound good at all. It sounds like malicious evasion and marketing bullshit.

It gives you a very good idea of the capability of the models you'll be running on it!

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by guerrilla » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

exe34 wrote: post #96

guerrilla wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't sound good at all. It sounds like malicious evasion and marketing bullshit.

It gives you a very good idea of the capability of the models you'll be running on it!

It doesn't give a good idea of anything. We already know it has 128GB unified memory from the first bullet point on the page.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by lend000 » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

Is there something similar with twice the memory/bandwidth? That's a use case that I would seriously consider to run any frontier open source model locally, at usable speed. 128GB is almost enough.

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by arcanemachiner » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:10 PM UTC

dinkleberg wrote: post #63

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?

But how would that boost their KPIs for user engagement and AI usage?

Re: Asus Ascent GX10

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Post by Someone1234 » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 6:11 PM UTC

jsheard wrote: post #35

brian_herman wrote: post #13

Couldn't you buy a Mac Ultra with more memory for the same price?

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.

The resale cost shouldn't be ignored either, that Mac Studio will definitely resell for more than this will by a significant amount. Least of all because the Mac Studio is useful in all kinds of industries whereas this is quite niche.