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HARDWARE / UNIFIED MEMORY

NVIDIA DGX Spark · 128 GB

A compact local AI system with 128 GB coherent memory. It can hold large low-bit models, but decode speed and software support remain model-specific.

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01 / PRACTICAL CEILING

Qwen3.8 Flash Next

The highest listed result may be a tight or offloaded fit. For daily use, prefer the first result marked Comfortable and keep context modest.

02 / DEFAULT RUNTIME

vLLM

Linux GPU servers, concurrency and OpenAI-compatible production APIs. CUDA, ROCm and XPU feature coverage differs. Driver, shared-memory and quantization compatibility are version-specific.

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03 / MODEL ENVELOPE

Representative open-weight models

Alibaba Qwen

Qwen3.8 Flash Next

180BQ4 estimated budget
Estimated memory
~108 GB
Context
262,144 native; 1M extended
inclusionAI

Ling-3.0-flash

124BQ4 estimated budget
Estimated memory
~74.4 GB
Context
Check selected runtime and checkpoint
OpenAI

gpt-oss-120b

117B5.1B active · MXFP4
Estimated memory
~80 GB
Context
128K
Meta

Llama 4 Scout

109B17B active · INT4 MoE
Estimated memory
~78 GB
Context
10M advertised
Meta

Llama 3.1 70B

70BGGUF Q4
Estimated memory
~46 GB
Context
128K
Nex AGI

Nex-N2.5-mini

35BQ4 estimated budget
Estimated memory
~21 GB
Context
262,144 (config max_position_embeddings)
Watch out

Fit is based on estimated total model memory. Driver support, KV cache, multimodal projectors, concurrency, and desktop applications can all reduce available headroom. Current fit: Qwen3.8 Flash Next (Tight fit), Ling-3.0-flash (Comfortable), gpt-oss-120b (Comfortable), Llama 4 Scout (Comfortable), Llama 3.1 70B (Comfortable), Nex-N2.5-mini (Comfortable).