NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS from CES has an official product name in DGX Spark, but the GB300 AI Superchip steals the show with 20 petaflops of AI compute power.
The NVIDIA GTC AI Development conference started yesterday, but the big announcements are coming in fast and furious today. This one is all about some powerful AI development hardware, known as DGX Spark and DGX Station. These names come out of left field, but the technology upon which they are built is a known commodity: the Grace Blackwell AI supercomputer architecture, which has expanded into multiple chips.
Back at CES, NVIDIA announced Project DIGITS, its AI acceleration developer workstation fueled by Grace Blackwell. That’s a combination of its Arm CPU design coupled with a Blackwell GPU, all backed by a whopping 128GB of memory. It’s powerful, small, and laser focused on giving AI developers a suitable workstation to do use for their efforts. Now, Project DIGITS has a new name: DGX Spark. That system is accompanied by a new behemoth based on Blackwell Ultra, DGX Station. Project DIGITS Becomes DGX SparkLet’s start briefly with the system we already know. The tiny cube-like DGX Spark computer is built upon the Grace Blackwell-based GB10 chip, which delivers up to 1,000 trillions of operations per second (TOPS) of AI-driving compute power.
