NVIDIA's DGX Spark AI computer revealed earlier this year goes on sale today for $3,999, the company announced. Though relatively tiny, it hosts the the company's entire AI platform including GPUs and CPUs, along with NVIDIA's AI software stack "into a system small enough for a lab or an office," NVIDIA said.
The Spark isn't something you'd buy to play Baldur's Gate 3, though. It's designed to give developers, researchers and data scientists enough computer power to run complex AI models. Early recipients of the PCs include Anaconda, Google, Hugging Face, Meta and Microsoft. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang even hand-delivered a unit to Elon Musk at SpaceX's headquarter in Starbase, Texas.
The DGX has plenty of power on offer despite its diminutive 2.6 pound size. It boasts NVIDIA's GB10 super system-on-chip that weds a 20-core ARM CPU with a Blackwell GPU powered by the same number of cores as an RTX 5070 GPU. It's outfitted with 128GB of LPDDR5x RAM shared between the CPU and GPU and includes 4TB of NVMe storage, along with four USB-C ports, Wi-Fi 7 and an HDMI connector. NVDIA calls it "the world’s smallest AI supercomputer."
The DGX Spark runs Nvidia's DGX OS, a custom version of Ubuntu Linux that's configured with AI software. With that, developers can access NVIDIA AI models, libraries and microservices in order to do chores like refining image generation or creating AI chatbots.
The DGX Spark is also an entry point for similar machines. Other vendors like Dell, HP, Lenovo and ASUS showed off similar AI-oriented mini PC's at Computex this year using the same GB10 chip, with Acer's Veriton GN100 being one example.
The DGX Spark mini PC is now on sale for $3,999 through NVIDIA and its partners. While not cheap, it's a drop in the bucket for AI developers and all of the companies listed above, and considering the hardware inside, the price doesn't seem unreasonable. NVIDIA is also working on the DGX Station that will feature GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, with 20 petaflops of performance and 784GB of unified system memory. A price has yet to be announced for that model
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