Will it run? / DeepSeek-R1 32B / NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB)

Can the NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB) run DeepSeek-R1 32B?

Usable, but slow Yes, at about 9.6 tokens/sec (estimated). It works, but you'll wait on longer answers.

9.6estimated tokens/sec
21.5 GBmemory needed
108.8 GBavailable to the model
273 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run deepseek-r1:32b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 20 GB. The NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB) moves 273 GB/s, so the ceiling is 14 tokens/sec. Real machines reach a fraction of that ceiling; we use 70%, an assumption until we get measured runs for this kind of machine. Send us your real numbers and we'll replace the estimate.

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