Qwen on NVIDIA Blackwell

Can I run Qwen3 14B on an NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)?

Yes. Qwen3 14B at Q4_K_M uses 10.2 GB of the 96.0 GB available on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10), and runs at about 19.8 tokens per second. You can push the context to 128K.

Runs comfortably

10.2 GB of 96.0 GB · 11%
096 GB
Weights 8.5 GB
KV cache 1.3 GB
Runtime overhead 0.5 GB

Qwen3 14B at Q4_K_M leaves 85.8 GB spare on a NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10). There is room to raise the context length or move up a quantisation level.

Generation19.8tok/s
Prompt processing1777tok/s
Max context128Ktokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Qwen3 14B 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 27.5 GB 29.3 GB Runs comfortably 128K 6.40
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 14.3 GB 16.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 12.1
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 14.3 GB 16.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 12.1
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 13.8 GB 15.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 12.5
Q6_K 6.56 11.3 GB 13.1 GB Runs comfortably 128K 15.1
Q5_K_M 5.67 9.7 GB 11.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 17.3
Q5_K_S 5.52 9.5 GB 11.3 GB Runs comfortably 128K 17.8
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 9.4 GB 11.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 17.9
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 9.4 GB 11.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 17.9
MXFP4 4.25 9.4 GB 11.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 17.9
Q4_K_M 4.85 8.5 GB 10.2 GB Runs comfortably 128K 19.8
Q4_K_S 4.58 8.0 GB 9.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 20.7
Q4_0 4.55 8.0 GB 9.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 20.8
IQ4_XS 4.25 7.5 GB 9.3 GB Runs comfortably 128K 22.0
Q3_K_M 3.91 7.0 GB 8.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 23.5
IQ3_M 3.70 6.7 GB 8.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 24.5
IQ3_XXS 3.06 5.7 GB 7.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 28.3
Q2_K 2.63 5.0 GB 6.8 GB Runs comfortably 128K 31.6
IQ2_XXS 2.06 4.2 GB 6.0 GB Runs comfortably 128K 37.3
IQ1_M 1.75 3.7 GB 5.5 GB Runs comfortably 128K 41.4

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