The most exciting hardware to arrive this month in the Phoronix lab is Dell having sent over two of their new Dell Pro Max with GB10 systems. The Dell Pro Max with GB10 is their build-out around NVIDIA’s GB10 superchip with ten Cortex-X925 CPU cores and ten Cortex-A725 cores plus the GB10 Blackwell GPU. With 128GB of LPDDR5X memory and 2TB or 4TB SSD by default all within the small chassis, this is an interesting workstation for AI developers.
So far I have only been trying out the Dell Pro Max with GB10 the past few days but it’s a very interesting little device. Following NVIDIA recently shipping the DGX Spark, the Dell Pro Max with GB10 is also beginning to ship. The Dell Pro Max with GB10 is coming in at the same price target as the DGX Spark at around $3,999 USD for the model with 4TB of NVMe storage. Those not needing quite so much storage can order the 2TB version for $3699 USD.
The Dell Pro Max with GB10 ships with NVIDIA’s DGX OS 7 which is their customized version of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. From a polished initial setup experience to having the NVIDIA CUDA software packages and more pre-installed, within minutes of booting the Dell Pro Max you can be off to the races and diving down deep into the world of demanding AI workloads.
The Dell Pro Max with GB10 relies on an external 280 Watt USB Type-C power adapter. The Dell Pro Max with GB10 features USB-C connectivity with DisplayPort Alt Mode support, HDMI 2.1b display connectivity, 10GbE Ethernet, and ConnectX-7 SmartNIC 2 x 200G QSFP networking. With the ConnectX-7 Smart NIC you can use a 200G link for connecting to another Dell Pro Max and why Dell sent out two as a review sample for those wishing to scale out for handling larger AI workloads.
Dell is catering the Dell Pro Max with GB10 to AI researchers and engineers, organizations with strict data privacy/compliance mandates with the need to run AI models locally, academic researchers/students, and for AI prototyping. Much along the same lines as Strix Halo systems over on the AMD side.
The Dell Pro Max with GB10 measures in at 51 x 150 x 150 mm and weighs just 2.89 lbs / 1.31 kg. It is a very nifty little device.
This article is just a preview of the testing to come, beginning in December. For anyone that may be interested in the Dell Pro Max with GB10 and having any specific test/benchmark requests or similar, this is a call-out to provide your feedback or interest perspectives by commenting on this article in the forums. Stay tuned for some interesting tests on this NVIDIA GB10 powered device looking at the typical AI use-cases and exploring other neat uses for this petite but powerful workstation. Thanks to Dell for supplying these units for review and testing at Phoronix.
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