Best hardware for local AI
Ranked by the biggest open models each one runs fully in memory, then speed, with prices in the UK checked through the day.
Lists
- Best graphics cards for local AI
Top pick: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, £29,504 at Amazon. Runs DeepSeek V4 Flash at 32k context, about 69 tok/s (est.).
- Best graphics cards for local AI under £500
Top pick: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB, £499 at eBay. Runs gpt-oss 20B at 32k context, about 33 tok/s (est.).
- Best graphics cards for local AI under £1,000
Top pick: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, £999 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, £1,707 at Amazon. Runs Qwen 3.8 27B at 32k context, about 26 tok/s (est.).
- Best used graphics cards for local AI
Top pick: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, £14,499 at eBay. Runs DeepSeek V4 Flash at 32k context, about 69 tok/s (est.).