Throughout Tuesday’s Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two “private AI supercomputers” known as DGX Spark and DGX Station, each powered by the Grace Blackwell platform. In a manner, they’re a brand new sort of AI PC structure particularly constructed for operating neural networks, and 5 main PC producers will construct the supercomputers.
These desktop methods, first previewed as “Project DIGITS” in January, intention to deliver AI capabilities to builders, researchers, and information scientists who must prototype, fine-tune, and run giant AI fashions domestically. DGX methods can function standalone desktop AI labs or “bridge methods” that permit AI builders to maneuver their fashions from desktops to DGX Cloud or any AI cloud infrastructure with few code modifications.
Huang defined the rationale behind these new merchandise in a news release, saying, “AI has reworked each layer of the computing stack. It stands to cause a brand new class of computer systems would emerge—designed for AI-native builders and to run AI-native purposes.”
The smaller DGX Spark options the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with Blackwell GPU and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, delivering as much as 1,000 trillion operations per second for AI.
In the meantime, the extra highly effective DGX Station consists of the GB300 Grace Blackwell Extremely Desktop Superchip with 784GB of coherent reminiscence and the ConnectX-8 SuperNIC supporting networking speeds as much as 800Gb/s.
The DGX structure serves as a prototype that different producers can produce. Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo will develop and promote each DGX methods, with DGX Spark reservations opening at the moment and DGX Station anticipated later in 2025. Extra manufacturing companions for the DGX Station embrace BOXX, Lambda, and Supermicro, with methods anticipated to be out there later this yr.
For the reason that methods can be manufactured by completely different corporations, Nvidia didn’t point out pricing for the items. Nevertheless, in January, Nvidia mentioned that the base-level configuration for a DGX Spark-like laptop would retail for round $3,000.