Dell GB10 Mini Workstation Review: Addressing DGX Spark Pain Points
By
thomasjb
5mo ago· 9 min readenReview
100/100
Golden Brown
Bagelometer↗
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
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Summary
Dell's GB10 mini workstation is reviewed as a competitor to NVIDIA's DGX Spark, addressing some pain points of the original while maintaining similar price-to-performance limitations for small-scale LLM deployment. The review covers the base system with cluster testing planned for future analysis, comparing it to Framework Desktop and Mac Studio clusters for AI model training and networking performance.
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But many of the same caveats of the DGX Spark (namely, price to performance is not great if you just want to run LLMs on a small desktop) apply to Dell's GB10 box as well
It costs a little more than the DGX Spark, but does solve a couple pain points
Cluster testing is ongoing, and I'll cover things like AI model training and networking more in depth next year
Dell sent me two of their GB10 mini workstations to test:
In this blog post, I'll cover the base system, just one of the two nodes. Cluster testing is ongoing, and I'll cover things like AI model training and networking more in depth next year, likely wit
