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Nvidia Sets Oct. 15 On‑Sale Date for DGX Spark Desktop AI Supercomputer

Nvidia targets developers with a compact, Ubuntu‑based DGX platform that runs large models locally.

Overview

  • Orders open Wednesday on NVIDIA.com with global channel availability, and partner units from Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HP, Lenovo, MSI and U.S. retailer Micro Center.
  • The GB10 Grace Blackwell–based system delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance with 128GB of unified CPU‑GPU memory, NVLink‑C2C, ConnectX‑7 200 Gb/s networking and up to 4TB of NVMe storage.
  • Nvidia says the workstation can run inference on models up to 200 billion parameters and fine‑tune models up to 70 billion parameters locally.
  • Two DGX Spark units can be linked via high‑speed ports, which Nvidia says enables inference on models up to 405 billion parameters at 4‑bit precision.
  • Units ship with NVIDIA DGX OS, a custom Ubuntu Linux image preloaded with the AI software stack, and press materials and retail listings indicate a $3,999 price after an earlier $3,000 figure was cited.