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nightski 3 hours ago

I recently bought a few sparks from Micro Center for the exact same price and it comes with ConnectX-7 200Gbps inter-connectivity. Not sure how AMD feels it can charge exactly the same for less.

vlian2088 2 hours ago | parent [-]

it's 2026.07 and 128 GB of VRAM costs a firstborn.

nightski 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The spark also has 128GB VRAM (same type) and by recently I mean I bought them last week for $3999 each.

cyanydeez 2 hours ago | parent [-]

yeah, so $500 spread https://www.microcenter.com/product/699008/nvidia-dgx-spark is what the current price appears to be.

The differences are basically, sparks require ARM and sparks allow interconnects; so if you do have dreams of electric sheep to chain them together, you're not gonna get the AMD halo units.

But if you just want to putz around with a dev machine and do other things, not sure you'd want a spark.

nightski 2 minutes ago | parent [-]

They had it on sale last week for $3999, it will likely happen again. Also if you are willing to buy ASUS/Acer/MSI you can get them cheaper, in the same range as well.

codedokode an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Please note that 8 x 16 Gb DDR4 modules cost $480, and have a bandwidth of 200 Gb/s, the only problem you need 8 DRAM controllers.

nicce an hour ago | parent [-]

> the only problem you need 8 DRAM controllers.

Which is a huge problem? Even using 2x memory controllers in typical consumer motherboard can make system very unstable.