NVIDIA DGX Station
Shares rank 8 of 9 workstations by recommenders
People recommend it as a powerful, genuine NVIDIA AI workstation that runs Linux and suits serious local AI work. Critics say it is very expensive for what it offers.
People recommend it as a powerful, genuine NVIDIA AI workstation that runs Linux and suits serious local AI work. Critics say it is very expensive for what it offers.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Serious computing power for AI work
“A couple of DGX Stations are more likely to work well for what I have in mind”
Comment from 23 Jan 2026 in “I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file” “an obscene amount of computing (for a pretty obscene price)”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “DGX Station GB300 Cluster: Two 400G DACs, and Frontier Models”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Very high price for the value
“an obscene amount of computing (for a pretty obscene price)”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “DGX Station GB300 Cluster: Two 400G DACs, and Frontier Models” “so much $$$ and they only put pcie5 in there?”
Comment from 7 Oct 2026 in “DGX Station GB300 Cluster: Two 400G DACs, and Frontier Models” “It'd be a waste of money and electricity.”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Nvidia DGX Station Systems Available at Last GB300 and GB200 Workstations” - Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware”
Other workstations people recommend
The four most recommended other workstations, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Pro | 49 | 92 | 35% | 11 | 16 yrs10 owners | — |
| Tinybox by tinygrad | 25 | 31 | 45% | 4 | — | — |
| Dell Precision | 23 | 12 | 66% | 9 | 10 yrs6 owners | — |
| Sun SPARCstation IPX | 12 | 5 | 71% | 4 | — | Approved |
| NVIDIA DGX StationThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“so much $$$ and they only put pcie5 in there?”
“an obscene amount of computing (for a pretty obscene price)”
“It is double the price but at least is the real thing”
“expensive but allow PCI cards as well”
“It'd be a waste of money and electricity.”
“A couple of DGX Stations are more likely to work well for what I have in mind”
“They're also selling $3000 nVidia AI workstations that exclusively uses Linux.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.