How fast will local models feel on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X 128GB (laptop)?

Local LLM speed on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X 128GB (laptop)

The NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X 128GB (laptop) has 128 GB of memory and 300 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is what mostly decides generation speed. Below is the expected speed for each model at the best quantization that fits.

ModelQuantizationMemoryGenerationFirst token
Qwen 3.6/3.8 27BQ4_K_MFits7.8 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.8 Flash-NextUD-Q4_K_XLFits35 tok/s0.3 s
GLM-5.3 FlashUD-Q2_K_XLFits21 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 26B A4BQ4_K_MFits52 tok/s0.3 s
GPT-OSS 20BMXFP4Fits60 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5/3.6 35B A3BQ4_K_MFits91 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 31BQ4_K_MFits7.1 tok/s0.3 s
Qwen 3.5 9BQ4_K_MFits23 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek V4 FlashUD-IQ3_SFits26 tok/s0.3 s
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashQ2_KPartial offload12 tok/s1.2 s
GPT-OSS 120BMXFP4Fits67 tok/s0.3 s
Llama 3.1 8BQ4_K_MFits27 tok/s0.3 s
Gemma 4 12BQ4_K_MFits18 tok/s0.3 s
GLM-5.3UD-IQ1_SPartial offload6.6 tok/s1.3 s
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3BQ4_K_MFits54 tok/s0.3 s

Other hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.