dgx spark

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AI

NVIDIA spent three months optimising the DGX Spark. Token generation got slower.

Same machine, same benchmarks, three months apart. Prefill improved 27%. Generation regressed on every model — and that tells you exactly who should buy one.

Lena Fischer · 1h ago · 10 min

Hardware

Nvidia's DGX Spark costs 2.4x a Strix Halo mini-PC. it barely beats it on the number everyone checks

both give you ~128GB of unified memory for local AI, and their memory bandwidth is almost the same — 273 vs 256 GB/s. so the $2,700 gap buys something else entirely. here's what, and who it's actually for.

Ravi Malhotra · 2d ago · 6 min