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DGX Spark vs Radeon AI Pro R9700 x2

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Best sourced output tok/s per model (single-stream generation) — engine and version, quantization, context and a source link on every row. Hover a value for the quant.

DGX Spark52 sourced runs · best 86.8 tok/s
Radeon AI Pro R9700 x23 verified runs · best 131.4 tok/s

Specs and evidence

DGX SparkRadeon AI Pro R9700 x2
VRAM128 GB32 GB
Sourced runs on the board523
Models measured93
Best output tok/s86.8 tok/s131.4 tok/s
Highest measured peak VRAM—44.6 GB
Street price (latest snapshot)——

Sourced rows only. Peak VRAM is recorded by the person who ran the benchmark, so it is a floor for what the card can hold, not a specification. Price snapshots.

Head-to-head

Only one model has been measured on both cards (Qwen3.8-27B). On that single data point DGX Spark records 56.0 tok/s and Radeon AI Pro R9700 x2 records 43.6 tok/s — treat it as one data point, not a ranking.

The measured matrix

ModelDGX SparkRadeon AI Pro R9700 x2
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it—131.4 Q8_K_XL
Qwen 3.8 Flash86.8 EXL3 3.05bpw—
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next75.7 4.05bpw_h6_ng6—
GLM-5.3-Flash64.1 EXL3 2.05 bpw—
CYBER-FROST-3.860.7 EXL3—
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-hibrid4860.0 NVFP4 (output head)—
Qwen3.8-27B56.0 NVFP4 W4A443.6 Q8_K_XL
Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored—51.8 Q8_0
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B48.0 NVFP4—
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash47.0 FP4—
Underdog-Saluki-27B22.6 IQ2-mix—

Head-to-head (models tested on both): DGX Spark 1 · Radeon AI Pro R9700 x2 0 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 30, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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