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Can a DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte) run Gemma 3 1B?

Yes. Gemma 3 1B fits in fast memory on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte) at Q8_0 (1.8 GB needed, 108.8 GB usable), about 186 tok/s (estimate).

Hardware: DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte) · Model: Gemma 3 1B

DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte) has 128 GB of unified memory and 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth. DGX OS keeps about 15% of unified memory, so Ollama can use 108.8 GB. Gemma 3 1B (1B, Google) at Q8_0 is a 1.1 GB download and needs 1.8 GB with headroom for about 8k tokens.

Best quantQ8_0
Download size1.1 GB
Memory needed1.8 GB
Usable fast memory108.8 GB
Fitfits in fast memory
Estimated speed~186 tok/s (estimate)
Commandollama run gemma3:1b-it-q8_0
Open DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte) in the checker

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-23.

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