NVIDIA DGX Spark vs AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB for local LLMs
89 reports on the NVIDIA DGX Spark and 1 on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
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 1.6x higher on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB (273 GB/s on the NVIDIA DGX Spark, 448 on the AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB). 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
- 89
AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
- Memory
- 8GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 19.5 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 1
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 RX 5700 XT 8GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 4.0 t/sFP16 | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, 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 | 16.1 t/sQ5_K_M, 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 | 1.8 t/sQ6_K, layers on CPU |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 10.8 t/sFP16 | 10.2 t/sQ6_K, experts in RAM |
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