Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES. Since rebranded as the DGX Spark, the roughly NUC-sized system pairs a Blackwell GPU capable of delivering up to a …
Assuming that's US$3,000.00, that's currently slightly over AU$4,600.
A 5090 runs between AU$4,200 and $5,700, depending on make and model.
That's the infamous "Australia Tax" in action, for you. After seeing the prices on the Chinese black market, it's *almost* cheaper to take a budget flight there and buy it in one of the hole in a wall places in China.
No.
GPUs from Taiwan are openly shipped to China and then sold in shopping malls over the counter because they are not illegal there. So no "drug-dealer type markups." In fact they are often cheaper than in the USA.
Like most of the world, US law does not apply in China despite Trump's beliefs.
But LLMs had more personality:
C:\>ELIZA.EXE
Hi! I’m Eliza. I am your personal therapy computer.
Please tell me your problem.
how many R are in Strawberry?
Why do you ask?
Why not?
Why do you ask?
Because I want to know
What would it mean to you if you got to know?
I’d now if you are for real
What makes you think I am for real?
Are you not?
Why are you interested in whether or not I am not?
