Nvidia I'll start selling this week unveiled its “personal artificial intelligence supercomputer” DGX Spark. The machine is powerful enough to allow users to work on complex artificial intelligence models, but small enough to fit on a desktop.
Nvidia said Spark can be ordered online at nvidia.com starting Wednesday, October 15th and at select partners and retailers across the US. It said that when that happened, units would cost $3,000. showed Spark earlier this year, but according to the embedded infographic, the DGX Spark will now cost $3,999. in a press release from Nvidia. Most PC manufacturers have their own versions with Acer Veriton GN100, for example, also costs $3,999.
Spark boasts the kind of performance that once required access to expensive and power-hungry data centers. This could help democratize AI and would be especially useful for researchers. When Spark (then called NumbersNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that “putting an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student gives them the opportunity to participate in and shape the age of AI.”
Buyers can expect to see many similar models on the market, as Nvidia has said that third-party manufacturers can create their own versions. Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo and MSI will debut their own devices. custom versions of SparkNVIDIA confirmed today.
The Spark comes with an Nvidia GB10 Grace Blackwell super chip, 128GB of unified memory, and up to 4TB of NVMe SSD storage. Nvidia says it can deliver petaflops of AI performance—meaning it can perform a million billion calculations every second—and can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. It's also small, fits comfortably on a desk, and runs on a standard outlet. Nvidia calls it “the world's smallest AI supercomputer.”
Amendment of October 13: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the DGX Spark was “now available for purchase.” It will actually go on sale on October 15th.
