Only the M3 Ultra really beats it, and once you start scoping out the cost of a M3 Ultra with 128GB or 256GB, the DGX Spark doesn’t look bad after all.
I see ~274 GB/sec for the DGX Spark[1], versus 307 GB/sec for M5 Pro and 460 or 614 GB/sec for M5 Max[2]. One might call 90% "basically the same", but there are nominally two tiers above "Pro".
Yes, a MacBook Pro with 128 GB and M5 Max costs $5100 (14") or $5400 (16") versus currently $4700 for the DGX Spark, but the MBP includes keyboard, mouse, battery and portability. I believe its prefill is slower and you get 2 TB vs 4 TB SSD, but overall one gives up a lot to save 10% of the cost.
[1]- https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-spark/hardware.html [2]- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126319
Apple could actually be a good deal and you folks would still make up something to not justify it. In a way, it’s amazing what Apple has accomplished- Baseless negatively-tainted perception in certain influential tech circles.
(To be fair, they’re kind of earning it. I’m glad Tim “Sweet T” Cook is departing.)
Plus, my original comment got downvoted despite being factually-correct. Thanks, Reddit. Oh, wait…
The spark can fine tune models in 1/4 the time and excels at other compute tasks in ways that Mac never can. Plus the high bandwidth ConnectX-7 ports would be like $1700 to buy on a card just for the network adapters... But for generating tokens, it just plain loses.