Qwen on NVIDIA Blackwell

Can I run Qwen2.5 7B on an NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)?

Yes. Qwen2.5 7B at Q4_K_M uses 5.3 GB of the 96.0 GB available on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10), and runs at about 38.9 tokens per second. You can push the context to 128K.

Runs comfortably

5.3 GB of 96.0 GB · 6%
096 GB
Weights 4.4 GB
KV cache 0.4 GB
Runtime overhead 0.5 GB

Qwen2.5 7B at Q4_K_M leaves 90.7 GB spare on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10). There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.

Generation38.9tok/s
Prompt processing3445tok/s
Max context128Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Qwen2.5 7B on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)

Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.

QuantisationbpwWeights TotalVerdictMax ctxtok/s
FP16 / BF16 16.00 14.2 GB 15.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 12.5
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 7.3 GB 8.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 23.9
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 7.3 GB 8.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 23.9
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 7.1 GB 8.0 GB Runs comfortably 128K 24.6
Q6_K 6.56 5.8 GB 6.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 29.7
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 5.3 GB 6.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 32.7
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 5.3 GB 6.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 32.7
MXFP4 4.25 5.3 GB 6.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 32.7
Q5_K_M 5.67 5.0 GB 6.0 GB Runs comfortably 128K 34.2
Q5_K_S 5.52 4.9 GB 5.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 35.1
Q4_K_M 4.85 4.4 GB 5.3 GB Runs comfortably 128K 38.9
Q4_K_S 4.58 4.2 GB 5.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 40.7
Q4_0 4.55 4.2 GB 5.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 41.0
IQ4_XS 4.25 3.9 GB 4.9 GB Runs comfortably 128K 43.2
Q3_K_M 3.91 3.7 GB 4.6 GB Runs comfortably 128K 46.0
IQ3_M 3.70 3.5 GB 4.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 48.0
IQ3_XXS 3.06 3.0 GB 4.0 GB Runs comfortably 128K 55.1
Q2_K 2.63 2.7 GB 3.6 GB Runs comfortably 128K 61.2
IQ2_XXS 2.06 2.3 GB 3.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 71.8
IQ1_M 1.75 2.0 GB 3.0 GB Runs comfortably 128K 79.2

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