How fast will Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next feel on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB?

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is a 180B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (6B active per token). At UD-Q4_K_XL it needs about 112.1 GB of memory. The NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB has 119 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 27 tokens/sec (21–32), with the first token after 0.8 s for a short prompt. This estimate is based on community benchmarks of this exact setup.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q2_K80.9 GBFits44 tok/s0.3 sDerived
GSQ-RCO-IQ3_S83.6 GBFits43 tok/s0.3 sDerived
Q3_K_M92.0 GBFits39 tok/s0.3 sDerived
IQ4_XS97.7 GBFits37 tok/s0.3 sDerived
UD-Q4_K_XL111.3 GBFits27 tok/s0.8 sMeasured
Q4_K_M119.6 GBPartial offload30 tok/s1.2 sProjected
Q8_0188.3 GBPartial offload12 tok/s1.2 sProjected
FP16354.0 GBDoesn't fitWon't run——

Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on other hardware

Other models on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB

All models on the NVIDIA DGX Spark 128GB · Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next 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.