How fast will Ornith 1.5 9B feel on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB?

Ornith 1.5 9B on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB

Ornith 1.5 9B is a 9.65B-parameter model. At Q4_K_M it needs about 6.5 GB of memory. The NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB has 119 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 15 tokens/sec (12–17), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M5.8 GBFits15 tok/s0.3 sProjected
Q8_09.8 GBFits8.7 tok/s0.3 sProjected
FP1619.3 GBFits4.4 tok/s0.3 sProjected

Ornith 1.5 9B on other hardware

Other models on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB

All models on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB · Ornith 1.5 9B on all 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.