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"DGX Spark has only half the advertised performance"(twitter.com)
69 points by behnamoh 2 days ago | 38 comments
  • kvnna day ago

    I've been skeptical of NVIDIA products since playing with my Nano Jetson . The lack of various developers' success across different forums is striking. Also, the lack of actual support is striking (for example, it requires a downgraded Ubuntu host machine to receive flash updates).

    My experience with Raspberry Pi products is a stark opposite. They just work.

    As someone old to software but new to hardware, I'm not sure what to make of this.

  • justinclift11 hours ago

    Seems to be due to a misunderstanding of the expected performance of the DGX Spark: https://xcancel.com/Lasurak/status/1983178709348516238

    The GPU part of it is effectively an RTX 5070, with lower bandwidth memory.

  • weinzierl2 days ago

    I think statements like this stem from a miss-understanding mostly fueled by the DGX Spark's price and partly by Nvidia's marketing.

    The DGX Spark is essentially a developer board for people that need to develop for Nvidia's newest gen hardware but cannot get the real thing because of lacking availability (not primarily price). Ignoring Nvidia's ambiguous sales message and going by the technical data it is clear the DGX Spark is not for top performance production workloads. It's a development tool.

    • behnamoha day ago |parent

      That's a nice way to justify the DGX debacle.

    • helfa day ago |parent

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  • ThePowerOfFueta day ago

    https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1982831774850748825

  • JEFFREYBURKEa day ago

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  • ggm2 days ago

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    • sema4hacker2 days ago |parent

      I wouldn't call that particular tweet "posturing". He's throwing out some facts that large number of followers read and many reply to. There's some legitimate give-and-take going on.

    • unmole2 days ago |parent

      > audience that could usefully reflect on their prognostications isn't there.

      This is your own bias talking.

    • mrkeen2 days ago |parent

      Carmack is on the record as pro-Musk.

      • bfkwlfkjf2 days ago |parent

        Funny, I was got the vibe form Carmack that he's the kind of person who will crush everyone around him if he ever gets power.

        • ngcazz2 days ago |parent

          Apropos, this older comment of mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809597

          He clearly had a sense of his technical skills and used that as hostile leverage within id

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      • MemesAndBooze2 days ago |parent

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    • hoppp2 days ago |parent

      They got used to it and there is no other place really. Other websites don't have the community and outreach.

      I dislike x.com but twitter has a good niche so it sticks.

    • fleroviumna2 days ago |parent

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    • anvuong2 days ago |parent

      I find X immensely helpful for what I'm interested in: programming and machine learning. Most if not all of the people whose research & work I'm interested in are on X (Carmack included).

      I think you need to deal with your own biased way of thinking before trying to judge other people.

      • spiderfarmer2 days ago |parent

        I just created a new account on X to see what it looks like nowadays. It was shocking to see that of the top 100 trending tweets on a fresh account that doesn’t follow anyone, at least 10 were people showing off how much they hate other people.

        I’m not exaggerating. It’s a platform that thrives on hate, with maybe some useful information in between.

        • anonymous9082132 days ago |parent

          Yes, the algorithm is horrendous. You can opt out of the algorithm. Follow people you like, use the following timeline or a third-party API, and you will never see the bad content. It's pretty simple.

          • spiderfarmer2 days ago |parent

            I already deleted the account. I'm doing fine without X.

        • Zababa2 days ago |parent

          Yeah it is genuinely terrible and getting worse. It's kinda fine if you have your own little bubble and can adapt to frequent algo changes and only use the "following" tab, but then you miss on sometimes pretty good recommendations. I used to tell people to get on there to have the latest AI news by a few good accounts, I don't anymore, I don't want to expose them to all of that hate.

          • spiderfarmer2 days ago |parent

            You can get the latest AI news everywhere. I don't think I'm missing out not being on X.

      • AtlasBarfed2 days ago |parent

        "Biased"

        "Judge other people"

        Um, who owns X? What did he do on national television in the inauguration?

        A Nazi salute.

        Have a day.

        • justinhja day ago |parent

          Elon visited Auschwitz with Ben Shapiro and declared he was "aspirationally Jewish". Trump has Jewish children and Grandchildren. Calling someone fascist and Hitler gets them murdered these days, I wish people would be more sensible.

          • dragonwritera day ago |parent

            > Elon visited Auschwitz with Ben Shapiro and declared he was "aspirationally Jewish". Trump has Jewish children and Grandchildren

            Fascism and Jewishness are not inherently inexorably opposed such that being “aspirationally Jewish” (if that weren't a completely vacuous claim to start with) or having Jewish family members is counterevidence to being a fascist; Xenophobia and creating a foreign enemy are common elements of fascism, which foreign enemy it is not consistent among different particular instances of fascism.

            > Calling someone fascist and Hitler gets them murdered these days, I wish people would be more sensible.

            The resurgent fascism in America and its government kills far more people, far more directly, than calling people fascist could reasonably be claimed to.

            • justinhja day ago |parent

              I am not sure what you mean by fascism in America or what deaths you are referring to. Seems you are okay with some political inspired murder though.

          • AtlasBarfeda day ago |parent

            The gall of this comment...

            It should be in an ignominious hall of fame.

            Nazi salutes are done by Nazis. It really is that simple.

            • justinhja day ago |parent

              No, it's really not that simple. It was an ambiguous motion, explained by Musk quite clearly. Whether you believe him or not is purely subjective, but I at least offered some explanation why I do.

              • AtlasBarfed13 hours ago |parent

                And him telling the afd that they don't have to be embarrassed for their history in Germany the next week?

                Were there numerous other Twitter posts of dog whistles or not? Even an audible dog whistles? There's a track record here. That was not an isolated incident.

                Either you are dumb or you think I am dumb.

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        • j3th9n2 days ago |parent

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          • kanbara2 days ago |parent

            he also told the world he worked to get a pedophile elected president of the usa, and uses his untold billions to coerce others, silence liberalism and democratic thought, and harm minors and healthcare because he has his own familial issues. not really a great platform to be using and enabling tbh

            also it's full of nazis!

            • j3th9n2 days ago |parent

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          • cma2 days ago |parent

            Exactly right, it was two: one facing the crowd, a second turned around to face Trump.

            • j3th9n2 days ago |parent

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