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DGX Spark, GB10 Grace Blackwell, 128GB vs Ascent GX10, GB10 Grace Blackwell, 128GB

Neither box holds DeepSeek-V3 at Q5_K_M, at any quant we compute. This pair is the wrong pair for this model.

For DeepSeek-V3 at Q5_K_MDGX Spark 128GBAscent GX10 128GB
Fit
Won't fit
Won't fit
Headroom
357GB
357GB
Est. speed
Cheapest today
$4,699 at NVIDIA
$3,999.99 at Best Buy
Per GB of memory
$37
$31
Memory
128GB unified LPDDR5X memory
128GB unified LPDDR5X memory
Usable for a model
120GB
120GB
Memory bandwidth
273GB/s
273GB/s
Storage
4TB
1TB
Lowest recorded
$4,699 in 2d
$3,999.99 in 1d

Fit, headroom and speed are computed from each vendor’s published bandwidth and the model’s own size at 8K context. Prices are the cheapest listing we could read on each seller’s page. The arithmetic is here.

Where they actually differ

Every model we track at Q5_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.