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by incomingpain 250 days ago
That memory bandwidth choked out their performance. How can you claim 1000 tflops if it's not capable of delivering it. Seems they chose to sandbag the spark in favour of the rtx pro 6000.

I guess my next one I'm looking out for is the Orange Pi AI studio pro. Should have 192gb of ram, so able to run qwen3 235b, even though it's ddr4, it's nearly double the bandwidth of the spark.
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realityenigma 250 days ago
Good luck with any kind of coherent ecosystem and support. Also, if you're in the U.S., there is a good chance you'll get hit with tariffs which would wipe out any potential value. I'd much rather stick with nVidia that has an ecosystem (even Apple for that matter), than touch a system like this off of Alibaba.
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incomingpain 249 days ago
>Good luck with any kind of coherent ecosystem and support.

Admittedly I'm not a huge fan of debian; likely would end up going Arch on this one.

>Also, if you're in the U.S.,

Im not.

> I'd much rather stick with nVidia that has an ecosystem (even Apple for that matter), than touch a system like this off of Alibaba.

I get that. Realistically I'm waiting for medusa halo, some affordable datacenter card, something.

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