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Microsoft opens pre-orders for a $5,999 developer PC that can run 120-billion-parameter models locally
Microsoft opened pre-orders on October 7 for the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact developer PC first shown in June, priced at $5,999. It is sold only on Microsoft.com in the US and starts shipping in November. Inside is Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip, pairing a 20-core Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6,144 cores and up to 128GB of unified memory. Microsoft says it delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance and can run models with more than 120 billion parameters locally, without the cloud. These are company claims. VS Code, WSL and GitHub Copilot come preinstalled.
Sources
- Microsoft (Windows Blog), “Pre-order our most powerful Surface devices ever”, (blogs.windows.com)
- Microsoft (Windows Blog), “Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box”, (blogs.windows.com)
- Nvidia, “NVIDIA and Microsoft Reinvent Windows PCs for the Age of Personal AI”, (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
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