DGX Spark x2 vs DGX Spark x3

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 Spark x233 sourced runs · best 474.0 tok/s

DGX Spark x32 verified runs · best 152.9 tok/s

Specs and evidence

	DGX Spark x2	DGX Spark x3
VRAM	128 GB	128 GB
Sourced runs on the board	33	2
Models measured	7	2
Best output tok/s	474.0 tok/s	152.9 tok/s
Highest measured peak VRAM	—	—
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

On the 2 models measured on both cards, DGX Spark x2 leads on 1, DGX Spark x3 on 1. The widest gap is on DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: DGX Spark x2 154.0 tok/s vs DGX Spark x3 46.0 tok/s (DGX Spark x2 235% faster).

The measured matrix

Model	DGX Spark x2	DGX Spark x3
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-hibrid48	474.0 NVFP4 (output head)	—
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash	154.0 EXL3 2.9bpw	46.0 EXL3 3.5bpw
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017	92.8 EXL3 2.9bpw	152.9 EXL3 3.5bpw
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	93.0 INT4-AutoRound	—
Beam-1.0	58.9 EXL3 3 bpw	—
GLM-5.3-Flash	46.3 NVFP4	—
MiniMax M3.1 Flash	39.4 EXL3 SAGE 2.15 bpw	—

Head-to-head (models tested on both): DGX Spark x2 1 · DGX Spark x3 1 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 30, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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