US EditionJohn Carmack: DGX Spark Offers Half the Power, Performance Promised by Nvidia
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Early Reports Indicate Nvidia DGX Spark May Be Suffering From Thermal Issues
Longtime Slashdot reader zuki writes: According to a recent report over at Tom's Hardware, a number of those among early buyers who have been able to put the highly-coveted $4,000.00 DGX Spark mini-AI workstation through its paces are reporting throttling at 100W (rather than the advertised 240W capacity), spontaneous reboots, and thermal issues under sustained load. The workstation came under fire after John Carmack, the former CTO of Oculus VR…
With the DGX Spark, Nvidia has sent a clear message: Artificial intelligence should no longer be reserved solely for the world's data centers. Instead, they aim to conquer the field from the ground up with a "desktop supercomputer," providing developers with a comparatively affordable system that can be run on a desktop. The price of 3,999 […] Source
John Carmack Rips Into NVIDIA DGX Spark; Claims It Runs At Half Its Rated Power
Legendary programmer and co-founder of id Software, recently shared his thoughts on NVIDIA’s latest and smallest supercomputer, the DGX Spark. And…well, it’s not great. In a post on X, Carmack says that his DGX Spark unit was found to be drawing around 100W, less than half of its touted 240W rating, and achieved about 480 TFLOPS in FP4, or roughly 60 TFLOPS in BF16 workloads. As impressive as that sounds, it’s still less than half of its expecte…
NVIDIA probably has great ambitions for its DGX Spark, and other machines based on this model (e.g. at Dell and HP). The founder promises a lot for $3,999: a supercomputer on his desk to make the local AI. John Carmack, one of the most respected developers, to whom we owe Doom, tested the DGX Spark and he points out 2 defects:- performance not as high as expected- an important overheatingHe published his opinion on X. First, he points with aston…
A programming icon, John Carmack, has just thrown a pad into the pond by publishing his first tests of Nvidia's DGX Spark, revealing a machine far below the promises of marketing.
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