DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs RTX 4090D 24GB (China) for Local LLMs
The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) has about 102% more memory bandwidth (1,008 vs 500 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 102% faster on the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). The DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 66 vs 35 of 69 models (480 vs 24 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) but not the RTX 4090D 24GB (China): DeepSeek-V4-Pro (861.6B). MSRP is $3,000 for the DGX Spark (GH200 480GB) vs $1,599 for the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: RTX 4090D 24GB (China) (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (51 shared models), the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) posts the higher tok/s in 44 rows vs 7. Methodology.