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by bilekas 249 days ago
$4,000 is actually extremely competitive. Even for an at-home enthusiast setup this price is not our of reach. I was expecting something far higher, that said, nVidia's MSRP is something of a pipe dream recently so we'll see when it's actually released and the availability. Curious also to see how they may scale together.
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Xss3 248 days ago
A warning to any home consumer throwing money at hardware for AI (fair enough if you have other use cases)...

Things are changing rapidly and there is a non insignificant chance that it'll seem like a big waste of money within 12 months.

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eadwu 248 days ago
For this form factor it will be likely ~2 years for the next one based on Vera CPU and whatever GPU. The 50W CPU will probably improve power efficiency.

If SOCAMM2 is used it will still probably be at most near the range of 512/768 GB/s bandwidth, unless LPDDR6X / LPDDR7X or SOCAMM2 is that much better, SOCAMM on the DGX Station is just 384 GB/s w/ LPDDR5X.

Form factor will be neutered for the near future, but will probably retain the highest compute for the form factor.

The only way there will be a difference is if Intel or AMD pump their foot on the gas, which this makes maybe 2/3 years of it, with another 2 years unless they have something cooking it isn't going to happen.

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Xss3 248 days ago
Software driven changes could occur too! Maybe the next model will beat the pants off of this with far inferior hardware. Or maybe itll be so amazing with higher bandwidth hardware that anyone running at less than 500gbs will be left feeling foolish.

Maybe a company is working on something totally different in secret that we cant even imagine. The amount of £ thrown into this space at the moment is enormous.

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metadat 248 days ago
Based on what data? I'm not denying the possibility but this seems like baseless FUD. We haven't even seen what folks have done with this hardware yet.
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Tepix 248 days ago
If you compare DGX Spark with Ryzen AI Max 395, do you still think that $4000 for the NVidia device is very competitive?

To me it seems like you're paying more than twice the price mostly for CUDA compatibility.

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