Nvidia just made its AI desktop box $2,000 to $4,000 cheaper by taking out half the memory.
The company is rolling out a 64GB version of its DGX Spark, the mini AI workstation built around its GB10 chip. Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI will all sell 64GB models starting October 23 at $4,999, well below the $7,000-$9,000 street price of the existing 128GB version. The new box keeps everything else the same: the 20-core Arm CPU, 273 GB/s of shared memory bandwidth, and the ConnectX-7 networking that lets multiple Sparks link together. Nvidia is also shipping a Sync Cluster Assistant tool to automate that linking, plus a Model Launcher feature that downloads and runs models like Qwen 3.8 27B automatically.
A year ago, 128GB looked like the entry price for running serious local models. Dense models have gotten more efficient since then - Qwen 3.8 27B now runs in 32GB - so paying for 128GB of increasingly expensive LPDDR5X memory has become dead weight for a lot of buyers. Trimming the spec sheet to match what people actually run is a rare case of a vendor cutting a product down rather than piling on more.
Call it a modest win for budget-conscious tinkerers in a market where RAM prices keep climbing everywhere else.