Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC

CES Nvidia has announced a desktop computer powered by a new GB10 Grace-Blackwell superchip and equipped with 128GB of memory to give AI developers, researchers, and students the tools they need to run large models on the desktop.

Code-named Project Digits and announced at the annual CES super-event in Las Vegas today, the $3,000 system was developed in collaboration with MediaTek, and is powered by an Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU that, based on renders released by Nvidia, appear to reside in a single SoC. The box will ship with a special brew of Ubuntu Linux pre-configured to take advantage of the hardware.

Project Digits vaguely resembles an Intel NUC mini-PC in terms of size. Nvidia hasn’t detailed the GB10’s specs in full but has said the machine it powers delivers a full petaFLOP of AI performance. But before you get too excited about the prospect of a small form factor desktop outperforming Nvidia’s A100 tensor core GPU, know that the machine’s performance was measured on sparse 4-bit floating point workloads.

Specs we’ve seen suggest the GB10 features a 20-core Grace CPU and a GPU that packs manages a 40th the performance of the twin Blackwell GPUs used in Nvidia’s GB200 AI server.

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