Local AI benchmarks miss thermal throttling — a stand can boost NVIDIA Spark perf
draginol · x · 2026-10-24
draginol is benchmarking local LLM inference on the NVIDIA RTX Spark (N1X, 6144-core Blackwell GPU, 48GB VRAM, 20-core CPU) via LM Studio with GGUF.
He notes most local AI benchmarks overlook thermal throttling: a run screenshot shows the CPU limited to 61%. Practical tip: putting the Spark on a stand for better airflow yields a lot of extra performance.
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