"32GB for $1,299, put four in a Threadripper, and you've got 128GB." Nice math. The card costs $1,900.
That's the listed price right now, not a hypothetical. So four of them is $7,600 — before the Threadripper board and CPU, which push the real build past $10,000.
A DGX Spark gives you 128GB unified at $4,500. An AMD Strix Halo gives you the same 128GB at $4,000.
And "128GB" means something different in each case. Four cards is 32GB × 4, split across PCIe — you're sharding models between them. The DGX and the Halo are one pool. Same number on the spec sheet, completely different machine underneath.
What the four-card build actually buys you: real bandwidth and compute per card, and a path the unified boxes can't match. What it costs: double the money, ROCm, and a build that's a project instead of a box.
The number is the same. The bottleneck isn't.
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