DGX Spark (GB10, 128 GB) vs RTX 5090 (32 GB)

The DGX Spark (GB10, 128 GB) runs 103 of 110 open models at 4-bit or better, the RTX 5090 (32 GB) runs 86. Usable memory: about 122 GB against 31 GB. The RTX 5090 (32 GB) has more memory bandwidth (1792 vs 273 GB/s), so models that fit both answer faster on it.

Data as of 2 November 2026. Speeds are estimates unless marked measured.

NVIDIA

DGX Spark

128 GB

All models for this machine

NVIDIA

GeForce RTX 5090

32 GB · 1 card

All models for this machine

Running gpt-oss-20b

Runs

~63 tok/s

MXFP4 · 15.1 of 122 GB · our est.

Runs

~261 tok/s

MXFP4 · 15.1 of 31 GB · ModelFit est.

Single-user decode speed, estimated. Fastest machines for this model

Memory

128 GB

memory

32 GB

memory

~122 GB

usable for a model

~31 GB

usable for a model

273 GB/s

memory bandwidth

1792 GB/s

memory bandwidth

What it runs

103

of 110 models run at 4-bit or better

86

of 110 models run at 4-bit or better

Our pick

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Q4_K_XL · ~28 tok/s our est.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Q4_K_M · ~346 tok/s ModelFit est.

Largest current model that fits

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

125B at Q4_K_XL

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

35B at Q4_K_M

Popular models

gpt-oss-120b

Runs

MXFP4 · ~61 tok/s

Too big

needs ~68 GB

gpt-oss-20b

Runs

MXFP4 · ~63 tok/s

Runs

MXFP4 · ~261 tok/s

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Runs

Q8_0 · ~45 tok/s

Runs

Q4_K_M · ~346 tok/s

Qwen3.8-27B

Runs

Q4_K_M · ~11 tok/s

Runs

Q8_0 · ~36 tok/s

Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Runs

Q8_0 · ~52 tok/s

Runs

Q8_0 · ~195 tok/s

Llama 3.3 70B

Runs

Q4_K_M · ~6.0 tok/s slow

Too big

needs ~44 GB

Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

Runs

Q4_K_M · ~23 tok/s

Too big

needs ~67 GB

DeepSeek-V4-Flash

2-bit only

Q2_K · ~13 tok/s

Too big

needs ~177 GB

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