it's 2026.07 and 128 GB of VRAM costs a firstborn.
replyThe spark also has 128GB VRAM (same type) and by recently I mean I bought them last week for $3999 each.
replyyeah, so $500 spread https://www.microcenter.com/product/699008/nvidia-dgx-spark is what the current price appears to be.
replyThe differences are basically, sparks require ARM and sparks allow interconnects; so if you do have dreams of electric sheep to chain them together, you're not gonna get the AMD halo units.
But if you just want to putz around with a dev machine and do other things, not sure you'd want a spark.
They had it on sale last week for $3999, it will likely happen again. Also if you are willing to buy ASUS/Acer/MSI you can get them cheaper, in the same range as well. Those units are identical (mainboard/ram/chipset/connectivity), they only tend to differ in SSD being offered.
replyPlease note that 8 x 16 Gb DDR4 modules cost $480, and have a bandwidth of 200 Gb/s, the only problem you need 8 DRAM controllers.
reply> the only problem you need 8 DRAM controllers.
replyWhich is a huge problem? Even using 2x memory controllers in typical consumer motherboard can make system very unstable.
Why is that so?
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