NVIDIA DGX Spark vs AMD Radeon Pro W6800 for local LLMs
57 reports on the NVIDIA DGX Spark and 0 on the AMD Radeon Pro W6800
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 1.9x higher on the AMD Radeon Pro W6800 (273 GB/s on the NVIDIA DGX Spark, 512 on the AMD Radeon Pro W6800). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 125 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 57
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 512 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 35.7 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 0
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.
| Model | NVIDIA DGX Spark | AMD Radeon Pro W6800 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 4.0 t/sFP16 | 12.8 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 14.4 t/sQ6_K | 18.1 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | 38.3 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 14.5 t/sFP16 | 46.6 t/sQ5_K_M |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 4.0 t/sFP16 | 12.8 t/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 10.8 t/sFP16 | 32.7 t/sQ6_K |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: NVIDIA DGX Spark · AMD Radeon Pro W6800
Every report on each card, with its source: NVIDIA DGX Spark · AMD Radeon Pro W6800