NVIDIA DGX Station Systems Available At Last GB300 and GB200 Workstations For Your Desktop

While the bulk of NVIDIA’s focus at their most recent GTC trade show has been on their forthcoming Vera Rubin platform for obvious reasons, right now in the present the company is still in the middle of delivering their Grace Blackwell family of offerings. This includes the GB300 Blackwell Ultra accelerator itself, as well as systems and racks built around NVIDIA’s second iteration of their flagship server processor.

Among the Blackwell products that NVIDIA is finally getting ready to deliver is the DGX Station, NVIDIA’s workstation-sized Grace Blackwell box. First announced during GTC 2025 alongside the DGX Spark, the DGX Station would be an OEM system specification that partners could follow to build complete workstations around NVIDIA’s server-grade processor. The fundamental idea being that the DGX Station would be the next step up from both the tiny DGX Spark as well as traditional x86 workstations that pair a discrete video card attached over PCIe. In short, the DGX Station is meant to be as close to a Grace Blackwell server as an individual workstation could get.

Now, a full year later, the DGX Station is finally coming to market. With the start of this week’s show, NVIDIA’s partners have begun taking orders for their respective systems, just in time to get your Claw on.

DGX Station Shipping Specifications

As with devices based on NVIDIA’s GB10 processor for SFF systems, NVIDIA’s DGX Station program has NVIDIA strongly defining the specifications of the systems that partners will be allowed to sell. The heart of the system is based around NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra GPU and 72-core Grace CPU (both soldered to the motherboard; NVIDIA is not using SXM modules here), which are paired with 252GB of HBM3e and 496GB of LPDDR5X memories respectively.

Of particular note, the working HBM3e memory capacity of the shipping DGX Station is a downgrade from NVIDIA’s original 2025 specifications, which at the time called for the workstation boxes to ship with a fully-enabled B300 complete with 288GB of HBM3e. Instead, it would appear that NVIDIA has shifted to throwing salvaged B300 chips into the DGX Station, as the revised specs are consistent with only seven of the eight HBM3e stacks enabled. As a result, NVIDIA’s workstation-sized GB300 platform has about 12% less memory and memory bandwidth to work with than a proper GB300 server part.

On the networking side of matters, all of the DGX Station systems come with a ConnectX-8 NIC with dual 400Gbps Ethernet ports (QSFP112) for high speed networking. This is joined by a 10GbE NIC (RJ45) for general networking, and a 1GbE NIC for BMC management purposes.

NVIDIA is also rigorously defining the I/O requirements as well. Internally, all DGX Station systems come with four M.2 SSD slots running at PCIe Gen5 speeds, as well as a trio of PCIe Gen5 x16 slots – one running at full x16, and the other two running at x8. Even the front and back panel connectors are defined by NVIDIA, with systems including multiple USB Type-A and Type-C ports on the front, as well as more USB-A ports on the rear, and ports for interfacing with the BMC.

For users who need a DGX Station with graphics capabilities (something Blackwell Ultra lacks), NVIDIA also supports a limited selection of add-in video cards: the Blackwell editions of the RTX PRO 2000, 4000, and 6000.

A complete DGX Station is designed to run at up to 1.6kW, which is the limit of what a North American 120v outlet can provide. So it is not much of a stretch to say that NVIDIA has packed in about as much compute as a desktop system can hope to power – and if anything it is a bit of a surprise that they did not have to detune the compute performance GB300 a bit to make it all work.

As with the DGX Spark, NVIDIA is also providing the software stack for DGX Station systems, which will run the titular DGX OS. This continues to be an NVIDIA customized distribution of Ubuntu, which is currently based around Ubuntu 24.04.

Partner Systems

For the release of the DGX Station, several of NVIDIA’s regular partners have stepped up to provide systems based on the platform. ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, MSI, and Supermicro are among the vendors confirmed to be offering systems.

Compared to the GB10 systems we have seen so far, there is a bit of a wider variety among the DGX Station systems being offered. Still, all of these are full tower desktop systems that need to be large enough to accommodate NVIDIA’s larger-than-ATX motherboard, as well as NVIDIA’s front panel I/O requirements.

As for how much a DGX Station system will set you back, most of the participating system vendors are not even publishing list prices for the systems. Dell, MSI, Supermicro, and others are not taking direct orders through their websites; instead, potential customers need to make sales inquiries. The one exception to this that we have found has been Exxact, who seems to be selling a rebadged version of MSI’s system and offers a full order customization process through their website. The starting price for one of their DGX Stations? $87,411.50. And the premium configuration with an RTX PRO 6000 video card (among other improvements) bumps that up to $95,260.00.

Suffice it to say, the high demand for GB300 already makes it an expensive piece of kit, never mind the current crunch on DRAM and NAND supplies that further adds to those prices.

Supermicro To Offer a GB200 System for HPC Developers

Alongside the GB300 based DGX Station systems, Supermicro in particular has a second desktop Grace Blackwell system that warrants a mention. Although not being sold as a DGX Station, the company will be offering a version of their Station with NVIDIA’s Blackwell B200 accelerator, the predecessor to the B300 Blackwell Ultra used in the official DGX Stations.

The GB200 Developer Kit-based system, as NVIDIA is branding it, is exclusive to Supermicro. And it is largely the same as a DGX Station with the exception of the Blackwell GPU driving it.

Although unconventional at face value, there is an important purpose in having one of their partners offer a GB200-based system: the HPC market. One of the major architectural changes between the B200 and B300 GPUs is FP64 vector and FP64 tensor performance – while B200 was not especially fast to begin with, B300 further trimmed FP64 performance to 1/32^nd that of B200, making B300 all but useless for HPC work. As a result, B200 remains NVIDIA’s fastest accelerator for the HPC market at this time.

The older Blackwell GPU also comes with some similarly reduced specifications. Most notably, it 186GB of HBM3e memory, versus the more spacious B300. This means that Supermicro’s GB200 system will be serving a very specific niche of the market – and is likely why there is only one system vendor offering it.

Like the DGX Station systems, Supermicro’s GB200 Super HPC Station is slated to be available this quarter.