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Although one of the ones it cannot do is have/address 128GB of video memory, so it depends on what you want to achieve.

AMD Strix Halo was half the price at launch, same 128GB unified memory and nearly identical memory bandwidth. It is x86, so run whichever OS your heart desires.

You give up 200GB networking, but anyone 'daily driving' one of these things are probably not needing to cluster multiples of them at high speed..

I'm seeing it for 4k and up for similar specs as the spark?

Yes, due to the huge increase in memory price and also exploiting the demand for local LLM inference, the price for a mini-PC with Strix Halo has become more than double in comparison with the first months after launch (when you could pay something like $1800 for a system with 128 GB).

For those who are interested mainly in GPU performance, the NVIDIA system may be preferable. Otherwise, the Ryzen CPU is significantly stronger in multi-threaded performance, much stronger when running applications that are aware of AVX-512, so Strix Halo is preferable when the CPU performance matters.

Also for things like video decoding or transcoding, the DGX Spark GPU is likely to be weak.

>You give up 200GB networking, but anyone 'daily driving' one of these things are probably not needing to cluster multiples of them at high speed..

I mean that's not as true as you'd think: in fact its the whole benefit IMO of the spark-alikes, and if you're not running TP=2 or above you're sort of wasting it's potential

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