- The new ascent of the Asus GX10 brings a supercompute power to developers directly to developers
- Promises 1000 vertices of AI treatment and can manage models up to 200 billion parameters
- It’s cheaper than Nvidia DGX Spark, with less storage but similar performance
The development of the AI becomes more and more demanding, and Asus wants to bring a high performance calculation directly to the offices of developers, researchers and scientists of data with the GX10 ascent, an AI compact supercomputer propelled by Grace Blackwell GB10 from Nvidia.
The Rival of the Asus to DGX Spark from Nvidia (Project Digits) is designed to manage the workloads of local AI, which facilitates the prototype, refine and execute impressive models without counting entirely on cloud or data center.
The Ascension GX10 is delivered with 128 GB of unified memory, and the Blackwell GPU with fifth generation tensor nuclei and an FP4 precision medium means that it can provide up to 1000 peaks of the AI treatment power. It also includes a CPU of arms thanks to 20 cores, which accelerates data processing and orchestration for IA inference and model adjustment. Asus says that this will allow developers to work with models of AI up to 200 billion parameters without meeting major strangles.
Powerful but compact
“The AI transforms all industries, and the Asus Ascent GX10 is designed to bring this transformative power at the tip of each developer,” said Kuowei Chao, Managing Director of Asus IoT and Nuc Business Group.
“By integrating the Nvidia Grace Blackwell Superchip, we provide a powerful but compact tool that allows developers, data scientists and AI researchers to innovate and push the limits of AI from their office.”
Asus has built the GX10 with Nink-C2C, which provides more than five times the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0, allowing the CPU and the GPU to effectively share memory, by improving the performance between the AI workloads.
The system is also delivered with an integrated connectx network interface, so two GX10 units can be linked together to manage even larger models, such as Llama 3.1 with 405 billion settings.
Asus says that the GX10 ascent will be available in pre -order at T2 2025. Price details have not yet been confirmed by Asus, but Nvidia says that it will cost $ 2999 and will be delivered with 1 TB of storage.
In comparison, NVIDIA’s own DGX spark is a thousand more dollars ($ 3,999) and is delivered with 4 storage TB.
