DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB for Local LLMs

The DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) has about 25% more memory bandwidth (500 vs 400 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 25% faster on the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB). The DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 66 vs 39 of 69 models (480 vs 32 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) but not the MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B). MSRP is $3,000 for the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs $3,299 for the MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB. 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 (53 shared models), the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) posts the higher tok/s in 51 rows vs 2. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	Apple
VRAM	480 GB	32 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	LPDDR5
Memory bandwidth	500 GB/s	400 GB/s
TDP	170 W	120 W
MSRP (list)	$3,000	$3,299
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 53 shared models

Model	Params (B)	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) tok/s	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fits	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB tok/s	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	294.6 est.	Yes	235.7 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	159.1 est.	Yes	127.3 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	138.3 est.	Yes	110.7 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	106.1 est.	Yes	122.9 est.	No	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	106.1 est.	Yes	118.2 est.	No	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	106.1 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	99.4 est.	Yes	79.5 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	88.4 est.	Yes	70.7 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	83.7 est.	Yes	67.0 est.	Yes	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)

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)	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB
Catalog models that fit	66 of 69	39 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	DeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B)	—

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