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magicalhippo ◴[] No.42619182[source]
Not much was unveiled but it showed a Blackwell GPU with 1PFLOP of FP4 compute, 128GB unified DDR5X memory, 20 ARM cores, and ConnectX powering two QSFP slots so one can stack multiple of them.

edit: While the title says "personal", Jensen did say this was aimed at startups and similar, so not your living room necessarily.

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computably ◴[] No.42619341[source]
From the size and pricing ($3000) alone, it's safe to conclude it has less raw FLOPs than a 5090. Since it uses LPDDR5X, almost certainly less memory bandwidth too (5090 @ 1.8 TB/s, M4 Max w/ 128GB LPDDR5X @ 546 GB/s). Basically the only advantage is how much VRAM it packs in a small form factor, and presumably greater power efficiency at its smaller scale.

The only thing it really competes with is the Mac Studio for LocalLlama-type enthusiasts and devs. It isn't cheap enough to dent the used market, nor powerful enough to stand in for bigger cards.

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1. kcb ◴[] No.42620016[source]
Making comparisons to the 5090 is silly. That thing draws 500W+ and will require a boat anchor of metal to keep it cool. The device they showed is something more along the lines of a mobile dev kit.
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2. computably ◴[] No.42631937[source]
I agree they're not products that compete against each other. Unfortunately, the silly comparison has to be made, as less informed consumers are already claiming that the 128 GB RAM of Project Digits will obsolete workstation/server-class GPUs.