Local-Llm on Danilo Falcão da Silvahttps://falcao.org/tags/local-llm/Recent content in Local-Llm on Danilo Falcão da SilvaHugoen-usWed, 03 Jun 2026 20:04:52 -0300NVIDIA Spark vs AMD Ryzen AI Max: Which Little AI Box Do I Actually Want?https://falcao.org/posts/nvidia-spark-vs-amd-ai-max/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:04:52 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/nvidia-spark-vs-amd-ai-max/<p>For two years the answer to &ldquo;where do I run a model that won&rsquo;t fit on a normal GPU&rdquo; was the same boring answer: rent a cloud instance, watch the meter, hope you remembered to shut it down. In 2026 there&rsquo;s finally a second answer that lives on your desk. Two of them, actually, and they take opposite philosophical bets.</p> <p>NVIDIA shrank a slice of its datacenter stack into a desktop and called it <strong>DGX Spark</strong> — a GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip with 128GB of unified memory and a literal petaFLOP of FP4 compute. AMD took the other road: <strong>Ryzen AI Max+ 395</strong>, codename Strix Halo, a normal x86 APU that happens to carry up to 128GB of unified memory and shows up in mini PCs you can buy for roughly half the price.</p>