Asus Ascent GX10
Asus has officially unveiled the Ascent GX10, its version of Nvidia’s Project Digits. This mini-PC, which uses a superchip GB10 Grace Blackwellprovides up to 1000 TOPS of performance in artificial intelligence tasks.
Just like Project Digits, Ascent GX10 is a compact supercomputer that can be placed on your desktop. Just connect a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and you have a powerful AI computer at your fingertips.
Asus hasn’t published a product page for the Ascent GX10 yet, so all the specifications we have about the mini-PC are taken from the press release. At the heart of the Ascent GX10 is the GB10, a simplified version of the Nvidia Grace Blackwell Superchip. This chip combines:
These components provide performance up to 1 PFLOP (1000 TFLOPS) in FP4 computing.
The Ascent GX10 has 128 GB of unified memory, which allows it to work with AI models that have up to 200 billion parameters. Although Asus does not disclose the memory specifications, they should be the same as in Project Digits: LPDDR5x RAM and M.2 NVMe storage with up to 4 TB of self-encrypting capacity.
The device has an Nvidia ConnectX network interface that allows connecting several Ascent GX10s to work with large-scale AI models (for example, Llama 3.1 with 405 billion parameters). Asus has not yet disclosed the full list of interfaces. According to Project Digits, we can expect 4 USB4 Type-C ports, HDMI 2.1a, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet.
There is no information about the release date and price of Ascent GX10 yet. However Project Digits should go on sale in May at a price starting at $3000, so we should expect a similar price tag for the Asus solution.
Source: tomshardware