But ideally they would be competitive, right? If your goal is LLM or Diffusion inference or - god forbid - training, you're going to get way better performance on DGX Spark. The difference is more stark than 250 vs 273 GB/s bandwidth delta would suggest.

Now I think it's totally fine to have a less capable offering, and the Strix Halo is still a mighty capable machine for inference on mid-size MoEs. At 2k it was a tinkerer's dream. But the performance difference should be reflected in the price. This is roughly a doubling of the price compared to less than a year ago without adding any notable features, it's appalling.