Surface RTX Spark Dev Box

I'm curious how the RTX Spark will perform and what it'll cost.

The big things it has going for it are CUDA and DX support...but performance wise this is pretty weak.

It's a 5070 (mobile) equivalent core set but in a <100W envelope for combined components, whereas the full 5070 mobile is more than that by itself.

It also has a very constrained bandwidth in comparison, and a lot of older ARM cores. NVIDIA and Microsoft better be able to be competitive on price because unless you specifically need CUDA or Windows, this just doesn't feel like a very competitive product to a Mac Studio?

What's with the recent spate of websites with weird and unintuitive scrolling?

Pre-installed VSCode!!!!!!1

it's all going local in my opinion https://johnny588358.substack.com/p/why-ai-infra-is-overblow...

lot's of moves from nvidia, microsoft (and apple) in the local ai game. makes you wonder about the viability of data centre build-outs

Beautiful