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Jul 4, 2026 · 06:009 min
I Bought the GPU Anyway
I bought a DGX Spark to fine-tune models — but first I owed my last post a rematch. I re-ran the same local/free/paid LLM inference benchmark on 120 GB of Grace-Blackwell instead of a CPU NUC. It fixes the one thing the NUC got fatally wrong, hits a bandwidth ceiling I didn't see coming, and makes clear why the real reason I bought it isn't inference at all.