Will it run? / Qwen2 72B / NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB)

Can the NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB) run Qwen2 72B?

Too slow to enjoy Yes, at about 4.7 tokens/sec (estimated). It technically runs, but slowly enough to be frustrating.

4.7estimated tokens/sec
42.5 GBmemory needed
108.8 GBavailable to the model
273 GB/smemory bandwidth
ollama run qwen2:72b

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How we got this number

Each generated token reads the whole model from memory once: 41 GB. The NVIDIA DGX Spark (128GB) moves 273 GB/s, so the ceiling is 6.7 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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