AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 vs NVIDIA DGX Spark

FPGA / Versal coverage note: 1,243 rows come from the AMD Vitis AI 3.0/3.5 Model Zoo tables; 733 (59%) are image classification. Detection, segmentation and other workloads are thinner, and there is no LLM or speech data for these boards. All are vendor-published (grade D). FPGA / Versal overview.

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NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI computer, gold metal-foam chassis, oblique view on a wooden table — NVIDIA DGX Spark. Photo: Daniel Lu (User:dllu), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

	AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	NVIDIA DGX Spark
Best object detection	93.50 FPS D 2026-09-24 (published)	990 FPS B 2026-09-27 (page last edited)
Power	n/a	153 W spec
Perf / W	n/a	6.47 FPS/W spec
Price	$15995 list	$6950 list
Workloads with data	2 of 7	2 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline nano (YOLO-n) at batch 1. Differs: model-size class medium (YOLO-m) vs nano (YOLO-n).

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA DGX Spark	990 FPS inference_time · b=1	YOLO11n FP16 · Ultralytics TensorRT · nano (YOLO-n)	B	153 W spec platform spec envelope (not measured with this result)	Ultralytics documentation (benchmark table) 2026-09-27 (page last edited)
AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 MIXED: model-size class medium (YOLO-m) vs nano (YOLO-n)	93.50 FPS throughput · b=1	yolov8m VINT8 with BF16 tail (Quark) · Vitis AI 6.3 VART ml_vart --benchmark --runs 100 · medium (YOLO-m)	D	unknown power n/a no power published	AMD Vitis AI 6.3 VEK385 YOLOv8m tutorial 2026-09-24 (published)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

instance segmentation

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No published instance segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA DGX Spark yet.
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pose estimation

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No published pose estimation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA DGX Spark yet.
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image classification

Only AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 has published image classification results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385	265 FPS throughput · b=1	resnet50-v1-12 (ONNX) INT8 (Quark) · Vitis AI 6.3 ONNX Runtime Vitis AI EP (evaluate.py, Python loop) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	AMD Vitis AI 6.3 VEK385 ResNet50 Quark tutorial 2026-09-23 (page last edited)

NVIDIA DGX Spark:

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No published image classification results for NVIDIA DGX Spark or AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 yet.
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semantic segmentation

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No published semantic segmentation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA DGX Spark yet.
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speech-to-text

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No published speech-to-text results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA DGX Spark yet.
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LLM generation

Only NVIDIA DGX Spark has published LLM generation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
NVIDIA DGX Spark	60.39 tok/s tg128 · b=1	Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · llama.cpp Vulkan (FA on, commit 657e011) · LLM 5–14B	C	153 W spec platform spec envelope (not measured with this result)	llama.cpp discussion #10879 Vulkan scoreboard (via GitHub API) 2026-10-10 (page last edited)

AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385:

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No published LLM generation results for AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 VEK385 or NVIDIA DGX Spark yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

How to read these numbers

Every number is labelled. Confidence: A MLPerf closed, audited · B documented third-party method · C community / review · D vendor-published, not independently verified · E estimate. Power basis: measured with the result · spec vendor spec/envelope · power n/a not published.

Machine-readable: /find.json (see llms.txt); full tables are in “Show data”. Confidence grades: A audited MLPerf closed · B documented third-party · C community · D vendor-published · E estimate. Unknown values are shown as unknown, never estimated. Generated 2026-10-16 from public sources.