the GB10 is only the same performance as a 3090. gb10 uses way less power.

i'm not sure why anyone would buy a mac studio instead of a gb10 machine for this use case.

it's just people looking to do experiments locally on the main machine rather than just get a dedicated spark, which can be used properly as a headless box than a Mac of which you are at the mercy of system shenanigans albiet still bearable compared to windows

> i'm not sure why anyone would buy a mac studio instead of a gb10

For an AI-only use case, the GB10s make sense, but they are only OK as desktop workstations, and I’m not sure for how long DGX OS will be updated, as dedicated AI machines have somewhat short lives. Apple computers, OTOH, have much longer lives, and desktops live the longest. I retired my Mac Mini a year after the machine was no longer getting OS updates, and it was still going strong.

DGX OS (based on Ubuntu) is used for all of nVidias GPU compute systems so it's probably going to be around for a while.

But how long until hardware support is dropped?

I don't know... when is nVidia planning on getting out of the ai business?

When will they discontinue GB10 hardware support because it’s too slow and they want to sell you newer chips?

Yeah, if you had experience with their Jetson boards, you'd know Nvidia is not well regarded for their OS support.

TK1 support stopped after under 4 years. Basically they released it with some version of Ubuntu (14.04 LTS) and never upgraded it.