Mini PC manufacturer GMKtec has claimed its EVO-X2 system, equipped with an AMD Strix Halo processor, outperforms the Nvidia DGX Spark in several artificial intelligence workloads while costing approximately half the price. Testing with open-source language models, including Llama 3.3 70B and GPT-OSS 20B, showed the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip delivering faster first token response times in most scenarios, according to company benchmarks, while Nvidia maintained advantages in token generation speed for smaller models like Qwen3 0.6B.
The GMKtec device retails at $2,199 for its premium 128GB RAM and 2TB storage configuration compared with the $4,000 DGX Spark, which features the custom GB10 processor rated at one petaflop of FP4 performance. The manufacturer attributed the AMD platform's latency advantages to its integrated CPU, GPU and NPU architecture utilizing the XDNA 2 engine, though acknowledged Nvidia hardware remains better suited for high-throughput applications processing large parameter models where memory bandwidth takes priority over initial response delays.
The GMKtec device retails at $2,199 for its premium 128GB RAM and 2TB storage configuration compared with the $4,000 DGX Spark, which features the custom GB10 processor rated at one petaflop of FP4 performance. The manufacturer attributed the AMD platform's latency advantages to its integrated CPU, GPU and NPU architecture utilizing the XDNA 2 engine, though acknowledged Nvidia hardware remains better suited for high-throughput applications processing large parameter models where memory bandwidth takes priority over initial response delays.
