NVIDIA DGX Spark vs NVIDIA RTX 4070 for local LLMs
87 reports on the NVIDIA DGX Spark and 12 on the NVIDIA RTX 4070
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 1.8x higher on the NVIDIA RTX 4070 (273 GB/s on the NVIDIA DGX Spark, 504 on the NVIDIA RTX 4070). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
NVIDIA DGX Spark
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 125 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 87
NVIDIA RTX 4070
- Memory
- 12GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 504 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 116 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 12
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 | NVIDIA RTX 4070 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 4.0 t/sFP16 | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 14.4 t/sQ6_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 14.5 t/sFP16 | 13.9 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | 38.3 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 4.0 t/sFP16 | 1.7 t/sQ8_0, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 10.8 t/sFP16 | 82.3 t/sQ2_K |
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