nVidia’s new Digits workstation, while expensive from a consumer standpoint, should be a great tool for local inferencing research. $3000 for 128GB isn’t a crazy amount for a university or other researcher to spend, especially when you look at the price of the 5090.
nVidia’s new Digits workstation, while expensive from a consumer standpoint, should be a great tool for local inferencing research. $3000 for 128GB isn’t a crazy amount for a university or other researcher to spend, especially when you look at the price of the 5090.
Dense models that would fit in 100-ish GB like mistral large would be really slow on that box, and there isn’t a SOTA MoE for that size yet.
So, unless you need tons of batching/parallel requests, its… kinda neither here nor there?
As someone else said, the calculus changes with cheaper Strix Halo boxes (assuming those mini PCs are under $3K).