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DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs L40S 48GB for Local LLMs

The L40S 48GB has about 73% more memory bandwidth (864 vs 500 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 73% faster on the L40S 48GB. The DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 66 vs 41 of 69 models (480 vs 48 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) but not the L40S 48GB: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B). MSRP is $3,000 for the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs $8,000 for the L40S 48GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (57 shared models), the L40S 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 52 rows vs 5. Methodology.

Spec comparison

DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)L40S 48GB
VendorNVIDIANVIDIA
VRAM480 GB48 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5XGDDR6
Memory bandwidth500 GB/s864 GB/s
TDP170 W350 W
MSRP (list)$3,000$8,000
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 57 shared models

ModelParams (B)DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) tok/sDGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fitsL40S 48GB tok/sL40S 48GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.08294.6 est.Yes509.1 est.YesL40S 48GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.0159.1 est.Yes274.9 est.YesL40S 48GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.3138.3 est.Yes239.1 est.YesL40S 48GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.0106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.7106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.0106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.0106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.7106.1 est.Yes183.3 est.YesL40S 48GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.299.4 est.Yes171.8 est.YesL40S 48GB
gpt-oss-20b21.588.4 est.Yes152.7 est.YesL40S 48GB
gpt-oss-120b120.462.4 est.Yes152.2 est.NoL40S 48GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)L40S 48GB
Catalog models that fit66 of 6941 of 69
Largest exclusive fitDeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B)—

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