Honestly it’s looking like pre orders are nothing but fluff. Retail stores already have supposed delivery dates up so it looks like inventory is being sent out but what about the preorders? May → July and now August with no news in site.

Yep, got the same update this morning.

I was wrong about the TFLOPS: for FP32, Spark only has 80, but 1,750 for FP 16, but a whopping 20 PFLOPS for FP 4 (for quantized models)!: Apple’s M3 Ultra 80-core GPU delivers approximately 28 TFLOPS of FP32 compute power, based on doubling the FP32 throughput of M3 Max (14 TFLOPS). In contrast, the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU used in DGX Spark achieves 80 TFLOPS of FP32 compute power, making it nearly three times faster in terms of raw FP32 performance. For lower precision AI workloads, the Blackwell is even further ahead: Blackwell B100 (data center edition) offers ~1,750 TFLOPS of FP16, and up to 20 PFLOPS of FP4 compute with sparsity optimizations. M3 Ultra’s FP16 performance is around 80 TFLOPS, which is only about 4% of Blackwell’s FP16 throughput. Summary: DGX Spark’s Blackwell GPU strongly outperforms M3 Ultra’s 80-core GPU in raw floating point compute (FP32, FP16, FP4). M3 Ultra’s strengths come from its massive unified memory, energy efficiency, and integration, but in direct TFLOPS comparisons, Blackwell is the clear leader for AI compute tasks.

Super interesting insights ! Thanks for this !

The email update this morning is a positive sign for communication on product updates, but candidly it also raises more concerns about product quality. After reserving a DGX Spark in the first minutes of the reservation system going live I’ve been increasingly excited about this new product category. A dedicated companion system for local training, fine tuning, and inference is the perfect compliment to an existing workstation setup. The challenge comes with expectation setting on the product launch. Since this is a new product offering the delays without an explanation really makes me think there’s an undisclosed product quality issue. Being an early adopter comes with speed bumps along the journey, however at this price point I would hope there will be more transparency on the delays as we get closer to order fulfillment. Project DIGITS’ announcement in January was very exciting. Pivoting to the DGX Spark product announcement in March was a bit unexpected and generated considerable momentum for interest. The delays on shipping have led to increasing speculation and desires for an alternative product. Candidly I have no interest in Connect-X and would greatly prefer a DGX Spark with 256GB+ and no Connect-X. I share all of this to vent some frustration but also share support for hopefully increased transparency on the delays as we get closer to launch. In keynotes with Jensen has shared the roadmap for data center product offerings in support of empowering customers to make the right purchasing decisions over time. Hopefully a similar approach can be taken on DGX Spark so that early adopter customers feel informed on their purchasing decisions.

Same email arrived here in Germany!

Yep, and then you have of course the CUDA vs Apple Metal debate. Very interesting market out there right now.

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We’ve just shared an announcement regarding the NVIDIA DGX™ Spark Founders Edition reservations. Details here. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-dgx-spark-reservation-update/342874

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