NVIDIA DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem
NVIDIA sent me a preview unit of their new DGX Spark desktop “AI supercomputer”. I’ve never had hardware to review before! You can consider this my first ever sponsored post if you like, but they did not pay me any cash and aside from an embargo date they did not request (nor would I grant) any editorial input into what I write about the device.
The device retails for around $4,000. They officially go on sale tomorrow.
First impressions are that this is a snazzy little computer. It’s similar in size to a Mac mini, but with an exciting textured surface that feels refreshingly different and a little bit science fiction.
There is a very powerful machine tucked into that little box. Here are the specs, which I had Claude Code figure out for me by poking around on the device itself:
Hardware Specifications Architecture: aarch64 (ARM64)
CPU: 20 cores 10x Cortex-X925 (performance cores) 10x Cortex-A725 (efficiency cores)
RAM: 119 GB total (112 GB available)—I’m not sure why Claude reported it differently here, the machine is listed as 128GB
Storage: 3.7 TB (6% used, 3.3 TB available) GPU Specifications Model: NVIDIA GB10 (Blackwell architecture)
Compute Capability: sm_121 (12.1)
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