Yes, the Dual DGX Spark looks like the sweet spot for this model for now. Good preprocessing speed. Lots of context. Fast enough for 1-5 devs perhaps. Around 8200€ as of today (used to be 6000€).

Dual Strix Halo is much slower and current Macs with 256GB are both slower and more expensive (Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB around 12000€).

To get something faster than the two Sparks you'd need to spend more than $22000 for a server with 2x RTX Pro 6000 at $10000 each.

Beyond that you could get 2x AMD MI350P.

Probably the same. When the same base model is trained, the weight do not tend to change a lot. GLM 5.0 > 5.1 > 5.2 are the same base model, that just kept being trained. Weights hardly change as a result. Think in the like few percentage points size difference.

There's also the 2x spark way, which should be ~8k eur? Someone down the thread reported ~60tps for 2x sparks. That's totally usable for local inference.

You can also do 2x 6kPRO in a workstation, for ~20k.

I'm running a useful quantization of the previous version of Deepseek-V4-Flash -- quite well but with so much fan noise -- on a MacBook Pro M5 Max with 128 GB.

500k is for the 8x B300 version. Which is the only one you can buy atm. But technically a B300 card is more like 60k, just impossible to get.