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Can the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) run Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct?

43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q6_K it needs about 14.4 GB of 102 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 45.9 tok/s.

Best quant
Q6_K
Generation speed
45.9 tok/s
Prompt processing
3,723 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
128K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB)

On Linux

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

  • The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
vllm serve microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
  • SGLang The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
  • Docker Model Runner Handy if you already work in Docker.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Microsoft, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q6_K, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.19.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.3.3 / 15
Match score62.9 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 12.1 GB 102 GB 109 tok/s Runs great 30Basic quality (D) · 30 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 12.6 GB 102 GB 85.5 tok/s Runs great 36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 13.3 GB 102 GB 66.1 tok/s Runs great 41Fair quality (C) · 41 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 13.8 GB 102 GB 54.6 tok/s Runs great 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 14.4 GB 102 GB 45.9 tok/s Runs great 43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 15.8 GB 102 GB 33.7 tok/s Runs great 44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
F16 21.0 GB 102 GB 15.5 tok/s Runs well 44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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