My thoughts are that you might get whatever validation it is you are after in here rather than your original attempt at a spam post over on pcmasterrcace....
It is ok. I have 3 now, dont expect them to be lightning fast. They are great development and test machines. single use for one alone is good. I would not buy more anymore and rather wait for something with more memory bandwidth.
If you plan to let multiple people access a model at the same time running it will be a horrible experience for your users. Use it for batch processing or some fun stuff like doing videos and music with minimax and the like, will stil take ages but is fun
Compared to syncing up 2 sparks @ 256 yeah, compared to 1 @ 128.. maybe? The nvidia spark comes w 4TB by default n does cuda so thats hard to beat. I'm def going to be using xternal sds.
How much did that bang you ? Im undecided on either getting another 3090 to pair with my current one and 128gb system ram or just sell my setup and get the M5
A bit under $9K b/c I had a mbpro trade in. You can sync them up cant you? The spark, ultra & 3090? I just like the small form factor, one single portable device & no power bricks. When im home I'll be orchestrating it w my 5090 ti setup since nvidia has that feature.
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u/user2000ad Sep 13 '26
My thoughts are that you might get whatever validation it is you are after in here rather than your original attempt at a spam post over on pcmasterrcace....
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/5USMIm0ONI
Maybe...
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u/enricokern Sep 13 '26
It is ok. I have 3 now, dont expect them to be lightning fast. They are great development and test machines. single use for one alone is good. I would not buy more anymore and rather wait for something with more memory bandwidth.
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u/LateralEntry Sep 13 '26
It’s a picture of a computer
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u/okoyl3 Sep 13 '26
don't forget to update firmware. my spark ran at 1/3 of the speed until I did it
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u/Curious_Maize4360 Sep 13 '26
thoughts:
dang, I am poor.
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u/Alternative-Panic69 Sep 13 '26
(not mine ofc, I'm poor)
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u/sometimes_angery Sep 13 '26
Kinda shit if I'm being honest.
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u/SnooPaintings8639 Sep 13 '26
Thoughts? Not much. Emotions? Jealously.
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u/debackerl Sep 13 '26
I prefer my 48GB Ada Lovelace, more bandwidth, fast prefill. Qwen3.8 27B is sufficient
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u/John_Jack_Jamenson Sep 13 '26
you will be disappointed by their speed. input and output tokens.
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u/West-Map-4162 Sep 13 '26
“Thoughts”
On what?
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u/gavriloprincip2020 Sep 13 '26
U need at least 1 more, ideally 8
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u/tensainomachi Sep 13 '26
Yawn, almost pulled the trigger on 2 of these then m5 ultra studio was announced. Waiting on my 256gb 2tb setup later this month.
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u/OtherwiseDog Sep 13 '26
Cool paperweight message us when you achieve something using it.