pretty much any of them, dude, as long as you have enough RAM, since it uses unified RAM and a powerful SoC CPU/GPU. Literally any M-class model, but the M5 is currently top tier.
The DGX Spark has basically the same memory bandwidth as a M5 Pro, and far more than a M5.
Only the M3 Ultra really beats it, and once you start scoping out the cost of a M3 Ultra with 128GB or 256GB, the DGX Spark doesn’t look bad after all.
> The DGX Spark has basically the same memory bandwidth as a M5 Pro, and far more than a M5.
I see ~274 GB/sec for the DGX Spark[1], versus 307 GB/sec for M5 Pro and 460 or 614 GB/sec for M5 Max[2]. One might call 90% "basically the same", but there are nominally two tiers above "Pro".
Yes, a MacBook Pro with 128 GB and M5 Max costs $5100 (14") or $5400 (16") versus currently $4700 for the DGX Spark, but the MBP includes keyboard, mouse, battery and portability. I believe its prefill is slower and you get 2 TB vs 4 TB SSD, but overall one gives up a lot to save 10% of the cost.
I looked, but a sibling comment just provided the links. ~274 GB/sec for the DGX Spark, vs. 307 GB/sec for M5 Pro, and max 614 GB/sec (!!!) for M5 Max? Why would you completely friggin’ lie about this, or at minimum, not double-check your facts before bullshitting? Plus, you get a full-fledged computer along with it!
Apple could actually be a good deal and you folks would still make up something to not justify it. In a way, it’s amazing what Apple has accomplished- Baseless negatively-tainted perception in certain influential tech circles.
(To be fair, they’re kind of earning it. I’m glad Tim “Sweet T” Cook is departing.)
Plus, my original comment got downvoted despite being factually-correct. Thanks, Reddit. Oh, wait…
Yep. Memory bandwidth is what decides how fast LLM's generate tokens (mostly). The DGX Spark has something like 270 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and the m5 ultra is ~615 GB/s. Theoretically DOUBLE the speed. In practice he only generates like 25% more tok/s, but that's still very impressive.
The spark can fine tune models in 1/4 the time and excels at other compute tasks in ways that Mac never can. Plus the high bandwidth ConnectX-7 ports would be like $1700 to buy on a card just for the network adapters... But for generating tokens, it just plain loses.
Mine, for one. M5 Max MacBook Pro 128GB with a 4TB SSD. $5100 after a $1000 discount at Microcenter. Great deal if you can find it in stock.
pretty much any of them, dude, as long as you have enough RAM, since it uses unified RAM and a powerful SoC CPU/GPU. Literally any M-class model, but the M5 is currently top tier.
The DGX Spark has basically the same memory bandwidth as a M5 Pro, and far more than a M5.
Only the M3 Ultra really beats it, and once you start scoping out the cost of a M3 Ultra with 128GB or 256GB, the DGX Spark doesn’t look bad after all.
> The DGX Spark has basically the same memory bandwidth as a M5 Pro, and far more than a M5.
I see ~274 GB/sec for the DGX Spark[1], versus 307 GB/sec for M5 Pro and 460 or 614 GB/sec for M5 Max[2]. One might call 90% "basically the same", but there are nominally two tiers above "Pro".
Yes, a MacBook Pro with 128 GB and M5 Max costs $5100 (14") or $5400 (16") versus currently $4700 for the DGX Spark, but the MBP includes keyboard, mouse, battery and portability. I believe its prefill is slower and you get 2 TB vs 4 TB SSD, but overall one gives up a lot to save 10% of the cost.
[1]- https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-spark/hardware.html [2]- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126319
I looked, but a sibling comment just provided the links. ~274 GB/sec for the DGX Spark, vs. 307 GB/sec for M5 Pro, and max 614 GB/sec (!!!) for M5 Max? Why would you completely friggin’ lie about this, or at minimum, not double-check your facts before bullshitting? Plus, you get a full-fledged computer along with it!
Apple could actually be a good deal and you folks would still make up something to not justify it. In a way, it’s amazing what Apple has accomplished- Baseless negatively-tainted perception in certain influential tech circles.
(To be fair, they’re kind of earning it. I’m glad Tim “Sweet T” Cook is departing.)
Plus, my original comment got downvoted despite being factually-correct. Thanks, Reddit. Oh, wait…
Yep. Memory bandwidth is what decides how fast LLM's generate tokens (mostly). The DGX Spark has something like 270 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and the m5 ultra is ~615 GB/s. Theoretically DOUBLE the speed. In practice he only generates like 25% more tok/s, but that's still very impressive.
The spark can fine tune models in 1/4 the time and excels at other compute tasks in ways that Mac never can. Plus the high bandwidth ConnectX-7 ports would be like $1700 to buy on a card just for the network adapters... But for generating tokens, it just plain loses.
How noisy does his fan get…
it doesn’t get noisy at all