Nvidia has begun taking orders for its DGX Station, a powerful desktop workstation designed to run large artificial intelligence models locally. Formally introduced last year, the DGX Station builds upon the foundation of the DGX Spark, but utilizes the more advanced and faster GB300 chip.
Both the DGX Spark and DGX Station are intended for on-premise AI model execution. Although the Spark can handle models with up to 200 billion parameters, the Station is capable of managing models up to one trillion parameters, thanks to its increased performance and memory capacity. The DGX Station packs a 72-core CPU with Arm Neoverse V2 server-class cores, a Blackwell Ultra GPU with 20,480 CUDA cores, and 252 GB of ultra-fast HBM3e memory. The Station includes 496 GB of slower LPDDR5x memory, which the GPU can as well access coherently.
The DGX Station supports the addition of discrete professional graphics cards up to the RTX Pro 6000, features four NVMe SSD slots, and can be networked with up to three other units via a high-speed 400Gb/s ConnectX interface. DGX Spark units can be operated in pairs.
| DGX Spark | DGX Station | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 10 Cortex-X925 + 10 Cortex-A725 Arm cores | 72 Neoverse V2 cores |
| GPU | Blackwell, 6,144 CUDA cores | Blackwell Ultra, 20,480 CUDA cores, 252 GB HBM3e (7.1 TB/s) |
| RAM | 128 GB LPDDR5x, 273 GB/s | 496 GB LPDDR5x, 396 GB/s |
| SSD | 4 TB | 4× NVMe slot |
| discrete graphics | – | RTX Pro 2000/4000/6000 |
| network | 1× 10 GbE, NIC 200 Gb/s | 1× 10 GbE, 1× 1 GbE, NIC 2× 400 Gb/s |
| power draw | up to 240 W | up to 1600 W |
| FP4 performance | 1 PFLOPS | 20 PFLOPS |
AI performance is reportedly up to twenty times greater. When performing FP4 calculations, the Station achieves up to 20 PFLOPS. It delivers 10 PFLOPS in FP6/8, 80 TFLOPS in FP32, and 1.3 TFLOPS in FP64 – suitable for scientific computing. In integer operations (Int8), it provides 330 TOPS.
The DGX Spark is priced at $4,700. Nvidia has not yet announced pricing for the DGX Station. Similar to the smaller model, hardware-identical units will also be sold by partners including Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, MSI, and Supermicro. Pre-orders are currently appearing internationally for around $90,000, or approximately $1.9 million Czech Koruna before tax.
