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DGX Spark, GB10 Grace Blackwell, 128GB vs Mac Studio, M5 Max, 128GB

Neither box holds Qwen3-235B-A22B at Q6_K. The largest quant that fits is Q3_K_M, on DGX Spark, GB10 Grace Blackwell, 128GB.

For Qwen3-235B-A22B at Q6_KDGX Spark 128GBMac Studio 128GB
Fit
Won't fit
Won't fit
Headroom
75GB
75GB
Est. speed
Cheapest today
$4,699 at NVIDIA
$5,099 at Apple
Per GB of memory
$37
$40
Memory
128GB unified LPDDR5X memory
128GB unified memory
Usable for a model
120GB
120GB
Memory bandwidth
273GB/s
614GB/s
Storage
4TB
512GB
Lowest recorded
$4,699 in 2d
$5,099 in 2d

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 Q6_K. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.