Best hardware for local AI
Ranked by the biggest open models each one runs fully in memory, then speed, with prices in Germany checked through the day.
Lists
- Best graphics cards for local AI
Top pick: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, 19.076 € at eBay. Runs DeepSeek V4 Flash at 32k context, about 69 tok/s (est.).
- Best graphics cards for local AI under 500 €
Top pick: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, 309 € at Amazon. Runs Gemma 4 12B at 32k context, about 21 tok/s (est.).
- Best graphics cards for local AI under 1.000 €
Top pick: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, 855 € at Amazon. Runs Qwen 3.8 27B at 32k context, about 24 tok/s (est.).
- Best graphics cards for local AI under 2.000 €
Top pick: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, 1.850 € at eBay. Runs Qwen 3.8 27B at 32k context, about 26 tok/s (est.).
- Best used graphics cards for local AI
Top pick: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, 5.599 € at eBay. Runs Qwen 3.8 27B at 32k context, about 35 tok/s (est.).