Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
Apple · mac
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
NVIDIA · workstation
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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⇄ swap sides| Spec | Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) | NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD |
|---|---|---|
| AI Exaflops FP8 | — | 18.4 |
| Bandwidth GB S | 819 | — |
| Base Price USD | 3,999 | — |
| Comparator 5090 | 5,090 | — |
| CPU Cores 512gb Config | 32 | — |
| DGX Node Count | — | 576 |
| DGX PER POD | — | 32 |
| GPU Cores 512gb Config | 80 | — |
| GPU Count | — | 4,608 |
| GPU Type | — | NVIDIA H100 (Hopper) |
| Gpus PER Node | — | 8 |
| HPC Petaflops Fp64 | — | 275 |
| Interconnect | — | NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand |
| Launch Date | 2025-03-05 | — |
| Location | — | NVIDIA (in-house) |
| M Series Version | 3 | — |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 9,499 | — |
| Nvlink Switches | — | 360 |
| Only 96gb Config From | 2026-05-05 | — |
| Option 512gb Removed | 2026-03-05 | — |
| Pods | — | 18 |
| Quantum2 IB Switches | — | 500 |
| Rmax Pflops | — | 121.4 |
| Rpeak Pflops | — | 188.65 |
| Status | discontinued | — |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | — |
| Successor | Mac Studio with M5 Max / M5 Ultra (up to 512 GB unified memory) | — |
| Successor M5 Ultra Base Price USD | 5,499 | — |
| Superseded ON | 2026-08-25 | — |
| TDP (W)↓ better | 270 | — |
| Top500 Rank Jun2024 | — | 10 |
| Top500 Rank Jun2026 | — | 23 |
| Top500 Rank Nov2023 | — | 9 |
| Unified Memory Base GB | 96 | — |
| Unified Memory MAX GB | 512 | — |
| Unified Memory MID GB | 256 | — |
| Upgrade 512gb USD | 4,000 | — |
| Upgrade Chip USD | 1,500 | — |