M5 Ultra 256GB or 2x DGX Spark? Which one?
Summary
A community post weighing whether to buy an M5 Ultra 256GB or dual NVIDIA DGX Spark units for local LLM inference and agentic coding, comparing prompt processing and throughput trade-offs against an existing RTX 5090 setup.
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