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NVIDIA DGX Spark vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48GB for local LLMs

91 reports on the NVIDIA DGX Spark and 0 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48GB

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 4.9x higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48GB (273 GB/s on the NVIDIA DGX Spark, 1,344 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48GB). 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
91
NVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48GB
Memory
48GB
Memory bandwidth
1,344 GB/s
FP16 compute
258 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.

ModelNVIDIA DGX SparkNVIDIA RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell 48GB
Qwen3.8 27B4.0 t/sFP1627.4 t/sQ8_0
Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active14.4 t/sQ6_K124.6 t/sQ2_K
Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active14.5 t/sFP1686.2 t/sQ8_0
DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active38.3 t/sQ2_Kdoesn't fit at these settings
Qwen3.6 27B4.0 t/sFP1627.4 t/sQ8_0
Gemma 4 26B · 4B active10.8 t/sFP1673.9 t/sQ8_0

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