Hunyuan Hy3 on NVIDIA DGX Spark 128 GB
298.786B (21B active) on 128 GB at 273 GB/s. Hardware details · Model details
Memory budget at 8K context
How the estimate is calculated
- Decode: reading 21.0B active parameters at 4.50 bits/weight takes 64.57 ms at 273 GB/s x 67% achieved efficiency.
- MoE routing penalty of 15% applied: expert gathers are less bandwidth-efficient than a dense sweep.
- Prefill: 125 TFLOPS (FP16) x 4 for native FP4 tensor cores x 0.85 calibrated against measured prefill on this platform x 18% assumed model-FLOPs utilisation, divided by 2 x 79.2B parameters per token.
- Prefill uses 79.2B effective parameters, not the 21B active in decode: a batch of hundreds of tokens routes across most of the expert pool.
- MoE decode depends on how well the engine batches expert gathers; real results vary more than for dense models.
- Prefill throughput is highly engine-dependent. Flash attention, batch size and quantized KV all move this number substantially, and for sparse mixture-of-experts models it is the least reliable figure we produce.
- This is a calculated estimate, not a measurement. It assumes a single request, a short prompt, no speculative decoding and a warm model already resident in memory.
Estimator version estimator_v1. Stored with every estimated row so old estimates can be regenerated when the model improves.
| Quantization | Weights | Total needed | Utilisation | Fit | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MLX 4-bitrecommended | 162.8 GB | 171.2 GB | 163% | Does not fit | 0 |
Q4_K_M | 173.8 GB | 182.5 GB | 174% | Does not fit | 0 |
Q8_0 | 301.6 GB | 314.1 GB | 299% | Does not fit | 0 |
The $100 comparison uses the Codex Pro 5x / Claude Max 5x plans. A fixed planning conversion is used for USD. This compares monthly spend only: subscriptions have usage limits, local hardware has different capabilities and constraints, and taxes or regional pricing may change the charged amount. Prices checked 7 September 2026.
Monthly breakdown
| Depreciation 3,408 over 5 years, straight-line to a 465 residual | $56.80 |
| Electricity 9.5 kWh/month at 0.140/kWh | $1.33 |
| Cost of capital 4.0%/yr on 2,169 average capital employed | $7.23 |
| Monthly cost before tax | $65.36 |
| Electricity tax shield Running costs are deductible business expenses | −$0.28 |
| First-year expensing §179 (100.0%) | −$13.55 |
| Monthly economic cost after tax | $51.52 |
Three different numbers, deliberately
Assumptions and sources (verified 2026-09-07)
- VAT rate: No US federal VAT · verified 2026-09-07
- Marginal tax rate: IRS Publication 542 — Corporations · verified 2026-09-07
- VAT recoverable fraction: site assumption · verified 2026-09-07
- Useful life: IRS Publication 946 — How To Depreciate Property · verified 2026-09-07
- Electricity price: Site assumption · verified 2026-09-07
| Hardware | Decode | Price | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA DGX H200 (8x H200, 1,128 GB) | ~347–500 t/s | $359,430 * | Comfortable |
| Lenovo ThinkStation PX (4x RTX PRO 6000, 384 GB) | ~117–169 t/s | $58,553 * | Comfortable |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256 GB | ~57.7–83 t/s | $8,647 * | Comfortable |
| Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB | ~32.9–47.3 t/s | $5,674 * | Comfortable |
| NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 (748 GB) | ~32–46 t/s | $90,082 * | Comfortable |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512 GB | ~31.6–45.4 t/s | $11,350 * | Comfortable |
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