ASUS Ascent GX10
The ASUS Ascent GX10 is a 1-liter AI supercomputer with an NVIDIA GB10 Superchip, 128 GB LPDDR5x memory, and up to 4 TB NVMe SSD. It supports NVLink, ConnectX-7, and Wi-Fi 7, optimized for 200 billion-parameter models in a compact 150 x 150 x 51 mm chassis with a 330W PSU.
Specifications
Specifications
| Processor and Compute | |
| Superchip | NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell with 20-core ARM Neoverse V2AE CPU (72 MB L3 cache) and Blackwell GPU (72 SMs). |
| CPU Details | ARM v9.2-A architecture, up to 3.8 GHz frequency, 2.9x higher performance vs. prior Grace Hopper. |
| GPU Details | 5th-gen Tensor Cores, FP4/FP8/INT8 precision support, up to 1 PFLOPS FP4 AI performance. |
| Interconnect | 900 GB/s NVLink-C2C (CPU-GPU bandwidth, 5x PCIe 5.0 equivalent, 288 GB/s bidirectional). |
| Memory and Storage | |
| System Memory | 128 GB LPDDR5X-8533 (273 GB/s bandwidth, fully coherent unified memory). |
| Storage | 1 TB (standard) or 4 TB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD (7.5 GB/s read, 6.9 GB/s write); optional 2 TB/4 TB PCIe 5.0. |
| Expansion | No user slots; fixed config for thermal efficiency in 1L chas |
| Networking and Expansion | |
| Primary Networking | NVIDIA ConnectX-7 SmartNIC (200 GbE InfiniBand or 200 Gbps Ethernet, RDMA support). |
| Wireless | Wi-Fi 7 (BE6500, 2.4/5/6 GHz tri-band) with MediaTek MT7925, Bluetooth 5.4. |
| Ethernet | Dual 10 GbE RJ-45 ports (Intel X710-AT2 aggregation capable). |
| Clustering | NVIDIA ConnectX-7 for dual-unit NVLink switch support (up to 405B parameter models). |
| Ports and I/O | |
| Front | 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps, DP 1.4a alt mode), power button, Kensington lock slot. |
| Rear | 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps, DP 1.4a), 1x USB-C PD 3.0 (180W input/output), 1x HDMI 2.1 (8K@60Hz), 2x RJ-45 10 GbE. |
| Internal | No PCIe slots; optimized for mini form factor. |
| Power, Cooling, and Physical | |
| Power Supply | Internal 330W 80+ Platinum adapter (100-240V input). |
| Cooling | Dual axial fans with vapor chamber, full-metal chassis (150 x 150 x 51.4 mm, 2.3 kg). |
| Operating Conditions | 10-35°C ambient, <90% humidity (non-condensing). |
| Certifications | ENERGY STAR, EPEAT Gold, RoHS compliant. |
| Software and AI Stack | |
| OS | NVIDIA DGX OS (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS derivative) with NVIDIA drivers. |
| Preinstalled | NVIDIA AI Enterprise (NIM microservices), CUDA 12.8, cuDNN 9.8, TensorRT 10.9, PyTorch 2.7, JupyterLab, Ollama. |
| Supported Workloads | Local inference/fine-tuning up to 200B params; prototyping LLMs, diffusion models, NeMo frameworks |
