Gemma on NVIDIA Blackwell
Can I run Gemma 3 4B on an NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)?
Yes. Gemma 3 4B at Q4_K_M uses 3.3 GB of the 96.0 GB available on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10), and runs at about 66.4 tokens per second. You can push the context to 128K.
Runs comfortably
3.3 GB of 96.0 GB · 3%096 GB
Weights
2.5 GB
KV cache
0.3 GB
Runtime overhead
0.5 GB
Gemma 3 4B at Q4_K_M leaves 92.7 GB spare on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10). There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.
Generation66.4tok/s
Prompt processing6105tok/s
Max context128Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB
Every quantisation of Gemma 3 4B on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)
Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.
| Quantisation | bpw | Weights | Total | Verdict | Max ctx | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 16.00 | 8.0 GB | 8.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 21.9 |
| INT8 / W8A8 | 8.50 | 4.1 GB | 4.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 41.5 |
| Q8_0 (GGUF) | 8.50 | 4.1 GB | 4.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 41.5 |
| FP8 (E4M3) | 8.00 | 4.0 GB | 4.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 42.5 |
| Q6_K | 6.56 | 3.3 GB | 4.1 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 51.2 |
| AWQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 3.0 GB | 3.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 54.9 |
| GPTQ 4-bit | 4.25 | 3.0 GB | 3.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 54.9 |
| MXFP4 | 4.25 | 3.0 GB | 3.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 54.9 |
| Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 2.8 GB | 3.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 58.6 |
| Q5_K_S | 5.52 | 2.8 GB | 3.6 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 60.1 |
| Q4_K_M | 4.85 | 2.5 GB | 3.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 66.4 |
| Q4_K_S | 4.58 | 2.4 GB | 3.2 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 69.3 |
| Q4_0 | 4.55 | 2.4 GB | 3.1 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 69.6 |
| IQ4_XS | 4.25 | 2.2 GB | 3.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 73.2 |
| Q3_K_M | 3.91 | 2.1 GB | 2.9 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 77.7 |
| IQ3_M | 3.70 | 2.0 GB | 2.8 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 80.8 |
| IQ3_XXS | 3.06 | 1.7 GB | 2.5 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 92.0 |
| Q2_K | 2.63 | 1.5 GB | 2.3 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 101 |
| IQ2_XXS | 2.06 | 1.3 GB | 2.1 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 117 |
| IQ1_M | 1.75 | 1.2 GB | 2.0 GB | Runs comfortably | 128K | 128 |