NVIDIA DGX Spark Unboxing, Setup and First Impressions - One plug AI.

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

NVIDIA recently released the DGX Spark, an AI supercomputer that fits in your hand and easily sits beautifully on your desk.

In this video, I unbox it, set it up, get PyTorch and an LLM running as well as give my first impressions.

Helpful links:
NVIDIA DGX Spark homepage - https://nvda.ws/4iQXZU4
DGX Spark user guide - https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-spark/index.html
DGX Spark benchmarks - https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-nvidia-dgx-sparks-performance-enables-intensive-ai-tasks/

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro and unboxing
2:49 - What is the NVIDIA DGX Spark?
3:30 - Unboxing continued
7:19 - First power on
8:17 - Software setup (PyTorch installation)
10:26 - Creating an environment
14:39 - First LLM running (just a quick test, minimal optimisations)
16:35 - Connecting DGX Spark to another machine with NVIDIA Sync
19:30 - Final thoughts
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