ASUS Announces ASUS Ascent GX10 AI Supercomputer
ASUS has unveiled its innovative AI supercomputer, the ASUS Ascent GX10, featuring the cutting-edge NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. This groundbreaking device brings the power of a petaFLOP-scale AI supercomputer directly to developers, AI researchers, and data scientists worldwide.
As generative AI models become larger and more complex, local development efforts are faced with greater challenges. The Ascent GX10 is designed to address these challenges by providing developers with a powerful and cost-effective desktop solution for AI development.
Unparalleled AI Performance
The ASUS Ascent GX10 offers up to 1,000 TOPS of AI performance to handle large AI workloads. With up to 128 GB of unified system memory, developers can work with the latest generation of reasoning AI models containing up to 200 billion parameters.
Powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Technology
At the heart of the ASUS Ascent GX10 is the advanced NVIDIA GB10 Superchip, featuring the Grace Blackwell architecture and optimized for a compact form factor. The powerful GB10 chip includes a Blackwell GPU with fifth-generation Tensor Cores and FP4 support, delivering up to 1000 TOPS of AI processing power. It also features a high-performance Grace 20-core Arm CPU for data preprocessing and orchestration, as well as NVIDIA NVLink -C2C for a cohesive CPU+GPU memory model with five times the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0.
Handling Large-Parameter Generative-AI Models
The ASUS Ascent GX10, with its 128 GB of unified system memory and FP4 data format support, can manage AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. This allows developers to work with the latest AI reasoning models directly on their desktop. Additionally, the integrated NVIDIA ConnectX network interface cards enable two GX10 systems to be linked for handling even larger models.
Local Development, Scalable Deployment
The ASUS Ascent GX10 serves as a powerful experimentation platform for developers to prototype models and AI applications, freeing up compute resources in their clusters for training and deploying production models. By using NVIDIA AI software, users can seamlessly transition their models from desktop environments to NVIDIA DGX Cloud or other accelerated cloud infrastructure with minimal code adjustments.
Empowering the AI Community
"AI is revolutionizing every industry, and the ASUS Ascent GX10 is designed to empower developers with this transformative technology," said KuoWei Chao, General Manager of ASUS IoT and NUC Business Group. "By integrating the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchip, we are providing a powerful tool that enables developers, data scientists, and AI researchers to innovate and push the boundaries of AI."
Availability
The ASUS Ascent GX10 will be available for pre-order in Q2, 2025.
