I paid $1800 for my Strix and I run a 120b q8 model at 50 tokens/sec. I have run Qwen3 235B as well.
Cuda is becoming less of a deal breaker with rocm improving rapidly.
I don’t take the Strix or the Spark seriously, in my opinion they are both toys.
well yeah, they are toys compared to Enterprise infrastructure. But both of those run on normal 120V power outlets so they can be used in everyday homes.
A DGX runs n 240V C19/C20 cables so not really an option for 'normal' people.
So get 2 Spark devices connected over their ConnectX-7 ports and you can run any 'consumer-grade' model.
And CUEA being less of a deal breaker is true but moving from 99% market share to 94% is less as well, doesn't mean that they all AI Enterprise developers still utilize CUDA :)
But enough Devil's Advocate, The spark is cool and is a super efficient tool to run consumer AI models but so is the AMD Strix.