# DGX Spark

> **TL;DR.** DGX Spark is NVIDIA's $3,000-$4,000 desktop AI supercomputer — a 1.

- **Category:** AI / Hardware / Personal Compute
- **Stage:** established
- **Age:** 246 days
- **Origin date:** 2025-10-13
- **First detected:** 2026-04-20
- **Canonical URL:** https://earlyterms.com/term/dgx-spark
- **Sources:** 8 primary URLs

## Definition

DGX Spark is NVIDIA's $3,000-$4,000 desktop AI supercomputer — a 1.2 kg box built around the [GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/) with 128 GB of CPU-GPU coherent unified memory and 1 petaFLOP of sparse FP4 compute. It is pitched as the smallest machine that can load a 70B-120B parameter model into memory at all.

Jensen Huang unveiled it at [CES 2025 as "Project Digits"](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-dgx-spark-and-dgx-station-personal-ai-computers) on January 6, 2025 and shipped it on [October 15, 2025](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-dgx-spark-arrives-for-worlds-ai-developers) through ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, GIGABYTE, MSI, Acer and Micro Center, with Meta, Google, Hugging Face, Ollama and LM Studio confirmed as day-one software partners.

## Analogy

A personal Mac Mini-sized box that swallows whole 120B-parameter models the way a hard drive swallows files.

## Why it's emerging now

NVIDIA shipped DGX Spark on Oct 15, 2025 at $3,000-$4,000 with 128 GB unified memory — the first mass-market desktop that can hold a 120B-parameter model in RAM. Six months of review discourse has hardened into a clear verdict: great for capacity and prototyping, bandwidth-bottlenecked for raw inference speed.

## Related terms

- *alias:* Project Digits
- *related:* GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip
- *related:* DGX Station
- *competitor:* Mac Studio M4 Ultra
- *competitor:* RTX 5090
- *competitor:* AMD Strix Halo 395+
- *related:* Jetson Orin
- *parent:* personal-ai
- *related:* lm-studio
- *related:* mlx
- *related:* context-window
- *related:* claude-opus-4-7

## Sources

1. [NVIDIA DGX Spark product page](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/)
2. [NVIDIA launch announcement — Oct 13, 2025](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-dgx-spark-arrives-for-worlds-ai-developers)
3. [NVIDIA CES 2025 'Project Digits' announcement](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-dgx-spark-and-dgx-station-personal-ai-computers)
4. [LMSYS — A New Standard for Local AI Inference](https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2025-10-13-nvidia-dgx-spark/)
5. [Simon Willison — Great hardware, early days](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/14/nvidia-dgx-spark/)
6. [Tom's Hardware review — DGX Spark vs Ryzen AI Max+ 395](https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-dgx-spark-review)
7. [Hacker News — Carmack on half-performance claim](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739844)
8. [Jeff Geerling — Dell's Spark fixes pain points](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points)

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