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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 1 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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narrator ◴[07 Jan 25 04:49 UTC] No.42619363[source]▶
Nvidia releases a Linux desktop supercomputer that's better price/performance wise than anything Wintel is doing and their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32. Wow, it may actually be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
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sliken ◴[07 Jan 25 05:36 UTC] No.42619598[source]▶
Not sure how to judge better price/perf. I wouldn't expect 20 Neoverse N2 cores to do particularly well vs 16 zen5 cores. The GPU side looks promising, but they aren't mentioning memory bandwidth, configuration, spec, or performance.

Did see vague claims of "starting at $3k", max 4TB nvme, and max 128GB ram.

I'd expect AMD Strix Halo (AI Max plus 395) to be reasonably competitive.

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skavi ◴[07 Jan 25 05:56 UTC] No.42619722[source]▶
It’s actually “10 Arm Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725” [0]. These are much newer cores and have a reasonable chance of being competitive.

[0]: https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-nvidia-project-digits-high...

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1. ksec ◴[07 Jan 25 17:20 UTC] No.42624856[source]▶
For context, the X925 is what used to call Cortex X5 and it is now shipping in MediaTek Dimensity 9400. It has roughly the same performance per clock as a Snapdragon 8 Elite Or roughly 5% lower performance per clock compared to Apple M3 on Geekbench 6.

Assuming they are not limited by power or heat dissipation I would say that is about as good as it gets.

The hardware is pretty damn good. I am only worried about the software.