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Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by girvo on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:48PM (#50158538)
No, the AMD ones he’s talking about allow the GPU to address that memory as well: they’re “APU’s” that share system RAM as GPU memory

That said the compute power of the GB10 is awesome, my DGX Spark-like has been better than I expected.

Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by fy20 on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:25PM (#50158883)
Depending on what you are doing you may find all the models are written for CUDA though. I'm playing with gaussian splatting and it's like that. Codex is doing a good job porting stuff to Metal, but it would be easier & faster if I had Nvidia hardware to just run the models natively.

Not everything with AI is LLMs running on llama.cpp.

Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by judge2020 on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:55PM (#50160012)
https://zluda.org/ seems to work at near-native performance from what I can find on Google.
Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by Interesco on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:00PM (#50160463)
Is that the legit site? Clicking the "testimonials" directed me to a link where Opera (with which malware is commonly bundled) auto-downloaded.
Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by judge2020 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:49PM (#50173169)
Maybe you have some malware or they have some targeted thing running, clicking the testimonials does nothing at all for me. I'll request to remove it just in case.
Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by dang on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:50PM (#50173779)
We've delinkified it above.
Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by giancarlostoro on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:15PM (#50158792)
That's the thing, my understanding is that these Nvidia ones are supposed to have very impressive performance.
Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by Melatonic on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:42PM (#50159480)
They're severely hampered by memory bandwidth
Re:Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have... by girvo on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:07PM (#50160497)
Yes, but in practice it’s more interesting than that

The massively lopsided compute makes speculative execution techniques (MTP/DFlash etc) way more effective, which makes modern MoE models quite usable

I’m running Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Nota AI’s conservative NVFP4 quant at 30tk/s lowest decode, usually more around 45-55 for coding, and with prompt processing at a solid 2000tk/s

And that’s without very optimised kernels or anything, mostly standard vLLM