Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
NVIDIA DGX Spark
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
Rig B
Aurora
Intel / HPE · 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 | NVIDIA DGX Spark | Aurora |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | — | Intel Data Center GPU Max |
| Architecture | — | HPE Cray EX with Intel Exascale Compute Blade |
| Cores | — | 9,264,128 |
| CPU | — | Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470 52C 2.4GHz |
| CPU Breakdown | 10x Arm Cortex-X925 + 10x Arm Cortex-A725 | — |
| CPU Cores Total | 20 | — |
| Dimensions MM | 150 x 150 x 50.5 | — |
| Ethernet | 1x 10 GbE RJ-45 | — |
| FP4 Pflops Sparse | 1 | — |
| Gb10 TDP Watts | 140 | — |
| GPU Arch | Blackwell, 5th-gen Tensor Cores, 4th-gen RT Cores | — |
| Installation Year | — | 2,023 |
| Interconnect | — | HPE Slingshot-11 |
| Launch Price USD | 3,999 | — |
| Location | — | DOE/SC/Argonne National Laboratory |
| Manufacturer | — | Intel / HPE |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 273 | — |
| Memory Interface BIT | 256 | — |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X | — |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 4,699 | — |
| NIC | ConnectX-7 @ 200 Gbps | — |
| Power KW | — | 38,698.36 |
| Price Change Effective | 2026-02-23 | — |
| PSU Watts | 240 | — |
| Rmax Pflops | — | 1,012 |
| Rpeak Pflops | — | 1,980.01 |
| Storage | 4TB NVMe M.2 self-encrypting | — |
| Superchip | NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell | — |
| Top500 Rank Jun2026 | — | 4 |
| Top500 Rank Nov2025 | — | 3 |
| Unified Memory GB | 128 | — |
| Weight KG | 1.2 | — |
| Wireless | Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 | — |