Jin Daily AI Trivia: Don’t waste money on the Nvidia DGX Spark

Jin Daily AI Trivia: Don’t waste money on the Nvidia DGX Spark

After hyping it (DIGITS) up as the “next big thing” during the Nvidia Keynote back in CES Jan 2025 — and teasing fake pre-orders two months ago — Nvidia finally managed to get a few real units into reviewers’ hands… with a $1,000 price increase (Now $3999 USD) And remember, the 3rd-party versions (PNY / ASUS / Dell) will cost even more.

Meanwhile, the Mac Studio M4 Max (128GB) is just $3,149 with an education discount — and it delivers 546GB/s memory bandwidth, which is double that of the DGX Spark.

Let’s skip the deep tech talk unless you want the full breakdown — comment below and I’ll explain more.

Real-world benchmark results:

GPT-OSS-120B (FP4) DGX Spark – 11.66 tok/s M4 Max – 63 tok/s

Llama 3.1 70B (FP8) DGX Spark – 2.66 tok/s M4 Max – 7 tok/s

P.S. Nvidia claims the DGX Spark has 273GB/s memory bandwidth, but real-world tests show it’s below 200GB/s. What a joke. By the way, even the cheap RTX 3060 (12GB) has 360GB/s bandwidth — and that costs only $180.