Nvidia GB10-powered DGX Spark with 128 GB LPDDR5X memory gets $700 price hike

The Nvidia DGX Spark is a tiny workstation that is powered by the extremely potent GB10 "Grace Blackwell" chip, promising excellent LLM performance without consuming outrageous amounts of power - by modern standards, at least.

The GB10 chip, or "Superchip" as Nvidia calls it, packs a 20-core ARM CPU (10 Cortex X925, 10 Cortex A725) paired with 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory on a 256-bit bus. A Blackwell-based GPU with 4th-gen RT cores and 5th-gen Tensor cores is also present, packing a total of 6,144 CUDA cores. Nvidia claims a whopping 1 petaflop of compute, at FP4 precision (sparse).

Nvidia DGX Spark: Now even pricier

Clearly, the workstation mini PC is far from an affordable system, and was launched with an MSRP of $3,999. In a recent statement, however, the company has revealed that the system's price will increase by $700, bringing its MSRP to $4,699. Nvidia attributes the massive increase to skyrocketing DRAM and storage costs, which is hardly a surprise.

Ongoing supply chain pressures have led to massive price hikes for critical components, which has forced many consumer tech giants into raising prices. Nvidia themselves have stated that GPU supply will remain "tight" for the next few quarter, with little clarity on what lies ahead.

For folks with tighter budgets, AMD Strix Halo-powered systems might be a decent budget alternative for running LLMs locally, and also gaming. The GMKtec Evo-X2 is one such system, currently available for $2,700 on Amazon, and comes fitted with 128 GB of memory and a 2 TB SSD.