Using the DGX Spark as a daily driver computer
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Daniel Lawrence Lu bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark. It’s actually quite a competent general purpose computer while being super tiny and power efficient. It basically just has an ARM CPU, a decent NVIDIA GPU (with the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5070), 128 GB of unified memory, and a 4 TB SSD. […]
Daniel Lawrence Lu bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark.
It’s actually quite a competent general purpose computer while being super tiny and power efficient. It basically just has an ARM CPU, a decent NVIDIA GPU (with the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5070), 128 GB of unified memory, and a 4 TB SSD.
The DGX Spark runs “DGX OS” but it is in fact just plain old Ubuntu 24.04 with some additions. The CPU has a Geekbench 6 score roughly on par with an M3 Pro 14 core and an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X: 2983 single core and 18183 multi core.
Can it run Crysis? It turns out, it can totally run Crysis. The DGX Spark is quite decent at gaming in fact.
So anyway the whole thing is great (price tag notwithstanding):
it handles my “main PC” use cases, such as light occasional gaming, CAD needs (Rhino 3D), and photography workflow
generates LLM tokens decently for simple coding tasks and automation
power-efficient and quiet
looks nice
whatever doesn’t run out of the box, I can just get AI agents to get it working
See the details in the evaluation here.