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NVIDIA A800 80GB vs NVIDIA DGX Spark for local LLMs

0 reports on the NVIDIA A800 80GB and 89 on the NVIDIA DGX Spark

Which is faster for local LLMs?

Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 7.1x higher on the NVIDIA A800 80GB (1,935 GB/s on the NVIDIA A800 80GB, 273 on the NVIDIA DGX Spark). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.

NVIDIA A800 80GB
Memory
80GB
Memory bandwidth
1,935 GB/s
FP16 compute
312 TFLOPS
Reports
0
NVIDIA DGX Spark
Memory
128GB unified
Memory bandwidth
273 GB/s
FP16 compute
125 TFLOPS
Reports
89

Estimated by the calculator

The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.

ModelNVIDIA A800 80GBNVIDIA DGX Spark
Qwen3.8 27B19.7 t/sFP164.0 t/sFP16
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active116.7 t/sQ4_K_S14.4 t/sQ6_K
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active141.9 t/sQ8_014.5 t/sFP16
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active9.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM38.3 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.6 27B19.7 t/sFP164.0 t/sFP16
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active50.7 t/sFP1610.8 t/sFP16

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