- ASUS ‘new ascent GX10 brings AI Supercomputing Power directly to developers
- Lifting 1000 tops of AI treatment and can handle models up to 200 billion parameters
- It’s cheaper than NVIDIA DGX SPARK, with less storage but similar performance
AI development is becoming increasingly demanding, and ASUS wants to bring high-performance computing directly to desks for developers, researchers and data scientists with ASCENT GX10, a compact AI Super Computer Powered by Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip.
Asus’ rival to Nvidia’s DGX Spark (previous project digits) is designed to handle local AI workloads, making it easier to prototype, fine-tune and run impressively large models without relying on resources for Sky or Data Center.
Ascent GX10 comes with 128 GB of Unified Memory, and the Blackwell GPU with fifth generation of Tensorker and FP4 precision support means it can deliver up to 1000 tops of AI treatment effect. It also includes a 20-core Grace Arm CPU that speeds up data processing and orchestration to AI-Inferencing and Model Setting. Asus says it will allow developers to work with AI models of up to 200 billion parameters without running into larger bottlenecks.
Powerful but yet compact
“AI transforms every industry, and the ASUS ASCENT GX10 is designed to bring this transformative power to any developer’s fingertips,” said Kuowei Chao, General Manager of Asus IoT and NUC Business Group.
“By integrating Nvidia Grace Blackwell Superchip, we deliver a powerful yet compact tool that allows developers, data scientists and AI scientists to innovate and push the boundaries of AI from their desks.”
ASUS has built the GX10 with NVLINK-C2C, which provides more than five times the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0, allowing CPU and GPU to share memory effectively, which improves the performance across AI workloads.
The system also comes with an integrated ConnectX network interface so that two GX10 devices can be linked to handling even larger models, such as Llama 3.1 with 405 billion parameters.
Asus says the rising GX10 will be available for pre -order in the 2nd quarter of 2025. Price information has not yet been confirmed by ASUS, but Nvidia says it will cost $ 2999 and will come with 1 TB of storage space.
In comparison, NVIDIA’s own DGX kick is a thousand dollars more ($ 3999) and comes with 4 TB of storage space.
