Gigabyte has announced the AI Top Aero, a compact desktop mini PC powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip. Packing up to 20 Arm cores alongside 128GB of memory, the AI Top Aero is designed to power both traditional and machine learning-based tasks, offering users a complete package for the AI era.
The system combines 20 Arm cores (ten Cortex-X925 + ten Cortex-A725) with a 6,144 CUDA-core Blackwell GPU (equivalent to a desktop RTX 5070), sharing up to 128GB of unified LPDDR5X memory. Unlike the brand’s AI Top Atom mini PC, which features a similar core and memory configuration, the AI Top Aero runs Windows 11 for Arm, and thus supports loads of regular PC apps and games, on top of local AI workloads. This makes it an ideal platform for those who switch between different tasks.
When it comes to AI, the Nvidia RTX Spark N1X chip powering the AI Top Aero gives it enough horsepower to chew through many machine learning tasks, including AI development tools and applications such as LM Studio, Ollama, and Nvidia Nemotron models. It’s designed to provide a strong base on which to build a local AI environment, especially for those who value privacy or don’t want to rely on cloud services.
It’s also a potential competitor to Apple’s Mac Studio. The Nvidia Spark should pull ahead in large prefill/prompt processing thanks to its GPU’s high matrix multiplication capability. However, when it comes to token generation, the Mac Studio will likely be faster thanks to its massive memory bandwidth.
While AI capabilities are the main appeal here, the AI Top Aero can also do a lot of gaming thanks to its large Blackwell GPU. Additionally, you can expect the same feature set that’s available to gaming GeForce cards, including DLSS upscaling and DLSS 5 neural rendering. The same goes for content creation, where professionals can use the CUDA cores in compatible software to boost their rendering speed and productivity.
The rest of the specs include up to 4TB of PCIe Gen 5 SSD storage, USB-C connections, fast 10GbE LAN, and Wi-Fi 7. Lastly, despite its small size (approximately one litre in volume), Gigabyte claims the AI Top Aero’s cooling design is intended to keep temperatures under control, even during sustained AI inference workloads.
