Comment by girvo
3 hours ago
Not quite: not all of this needs to be in VRAM
It has a set of n-gram tables which you can stream from system RAM or even NVMe
That said it’s still quite big! I can’t fit it on my DGX Spark, though I believe you can if you have two?
It needs 3-4 Sparks to run well (at an acceptable quantization and sufficient KV cache):
https://github.com/christopherowen/spark-ds41f
Ah that’s a shame. GLM 5.3 Flash is honestly as good IMO and can run on two pretty successfully from what I understand.
I’m quite spoiled with how good Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is on a single spark though: shocking how good local models are getting on attainable-ish hardware
DeepSeek V4 Flash runs well on two Sparks, I documented that here:
https://blog.jonathanpage.com/
GLM 5.3 Flash runs fine on two Sparks and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on one is indeed incredible! I made this 3D game with it in two days using Qwen Code as agent:
https://games.jonathanpage.com/
I have access to two and will explore this the coming weeks.
Also give GLM 5.3 Flash a try: it’s shockingly good too in my testing, and I believe eugr has a TP=2 recipe to use for sparkrun