DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB has about 34% more memory bandwidth (672 vs 500 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 34% faster on the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB. The DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 66 vs 24 of 69 models (480 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) but not the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B). MSRP is $3,000 for the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs $799 for the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB. 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 (44 shared models), the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 5. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB)	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	NVIDIA
VRAM	480 GB	16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth	500 GB/s	672 GB/s
TDP	170 W	285 W
MSRP (list)	$3,000	$799
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 44 shared models

Model	Params (B)	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) tok/s	DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fits	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB tok/s	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	294.6 est.	Yes	396.0 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	106.1 est.	Yes	338.2 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	106.1 est.	Yes	307.7 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	106.1 est.	Yes	295.3 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	106.1 est.	Yes	255.7 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	106.1 est.	Yes	242.8 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	106.1 est.	Yes	239.1 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	106.1 est.	Yes	238.4 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	159.1 est.	Yes	213.8 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	99.4 est.	Yes	199.0 measured	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	138.3 est.	Yes	185.9 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	88.4 est.	Yes	118.8 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	83.7 est.	Yes	112.5 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	79.5 est.	Yes	106.9 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16	4.0	79.5 est.	Yes	106.9 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB

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)	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Catalog models that fit	66 of 69	24 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	DeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B)	—

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