Dell Pro Max GB10 mini brings desktop AI, costs ~£6,000

Dell has launched the Pro Max with GB10, a compact mini workstation designed for on-premises AI workloads. The unit is built on Nvidia’s GB10 Superchip, which pairs a 20-core Arm processor (10 Cortex‑X925 performance cores and 10 Cortex‑A725 efficiency cores) with a 5nm Blackwell GB20B GPU. The system includes 128GB of LPDDR5x unified memory and a 4TB SSD.

The Pro Max supports models up to 200 billion parameters on a single unit. Two units linked via Nvidia’s ConnectX‑7 SmartNIC can scale to 405 billion parameters. Nvidia lists peak AI throughput for the platform as up to 1,000 teraFLOPS in FP4 and up to 170 teraFLOPS in FP16.

The machine follows the DGX Spark mini specification and measures 150 x 150 x 51mm, weighing about 1.3kg. Dell supplies Nvidia’s DGX OS, an ARM build of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and software tools including Nvidia playbooks and the DGX Dashboard to assist setup and workflow management.

Rear ports follow the DGX Spark standard: three USB‑C 3.2 Gen 2×2 ports with DisplayPort 2.1, one USB‑C Gen 2×2 with power‑delivery input, an HDMI 2.1 output, an Ethernet port and the ConnectX‑7 SmartNIC connector. The unit does not include USB‑A ports. Wireless connectivity is Wi‑Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.

Dell rates the device with a nominal 240W power cap but ships a 280W power brick and permits higher draw under sustained load. Nvidia Sync allows remote operation from a laptop on the same subnet, including remote display sharing and workload control.

Hands-on testing recorded Geekbench 6 scores around 3,123 for single-core and about 19,708 for multi-core. Setup of the DGX Dashboard took roughly 30 minutes in trials; launching an image-generation pipeline with ComfyUI took about 45 minutes. The unit ran quietly and produced limited heat during those tests.

The Pro Max is aimed at data scientists, researchers and AI practitioners who require local inference or model experimentation rather than cloud-based compute. Nvidia introduced the DGX Spark mini concept last year and several OEMs have released DGX Spark variants.

Retail pricing places the Dell Pro Max near £6,000 in the UK. Competing DGX Spark mini systems from other manufacturers offer similar hardware and software at lower price points, with price differences attributed to vendor design, cooling and power configurations.