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GPU Comparisons · Hardware News Denver, CO

You've narrowed it down to two cards. They're $200 apart. The spec sheet says the expensive one is 15% faster, but you don't know if that 15% matters for the models you actually run.

Chloe runs the head-to-head comparisons that answer the specific question you're actually asking, not the benchmark the manufacturer wants you to see. No synthetic benchmark theater. Her comparisons focus on the metrics that matter for local LLM workloads specifically.

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Arc Pro B70 vs RTX 3090: 32GB for $949? — diagram
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Arc Pro B70 vs RTX 3090: 32GB for $949?

32GB VRAM under $1K sounds perfect for local LLMs—until you benchmark IPEX-LLM against CUDA. Arc Pro B70 tok/s lags RTX 3090 on 70B offload, wins only at 32B context headroom. Buy Intel for the gigabytes, buy used NVIDIA for the speed.

May 22, 2026
70B Local LLM Options by Budget — diagram
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70B Local LLM Options by Budget

Need 70B local LLM power? Single 3090 chokes at 8K context, 5090 can't run Q5_K_M, Mac Studio is silent but slow. See tok/s, TCO, and the dual 3090 surprise winner—before you buy the wrong tier and eat 70% depreciation.

May 5, 2026
Cloud H100 vs Local GPU: When Owning Wins — diagram
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Cloud H100 vs Local GPU: When Owning Wins

Cloud H100 at $4/hr seems cheap until month 10. RTX 5090 breaks even at 68 hrs/mo, saves $11K in 3 years. 5 non-financial kill criteria make cloud math meaningless — latency, privacy, availability, data gravity, customization.

May 5, 2026
M4 Pro 64GB vs RTX 4090: Who Actually Wins at Local LLMs? — diagram
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M4 Pro 64GB vs RTX 4090: Who Actually Wins at Local LLMs?

Same $2,400 price, wildly different LLM performance: M4 Pro 64GB hits 4.1 tok/s on 70B while RTX 4090 reaches 12.4 tok/s. MLX vs CUDA, memory bandwidth, and the quantization gap—compared so you don't guess wrong.

May 5, 2026
Qwen3.6 quant benchmarks: Q4 vs Q8 for MoE — diagram
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Qwen3.6 quant benchmarks: Q4 vs Q8 for MoE

Wrong quant kills Qwen3.6's expert routing—Q4_K_M drops 11 points on GSM8K, Q5_K_M recovers verification behavior, but Q8_0 needs 48 GB. Match quant to your GPU tier and workload, not just perplexity.

Apr 30, 2026
Second GPU or 3090? Fix Your 16 GB LLM Bottleneck — diagram
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Second GPU or 3090? Fix Your 16 GB LLM Bottleneck

16 GB GPUs choke on 70B models—dual cards hit 4–6 tok/s with PCIe overhead, while a used RTX 3090 hits 8–12 tok/s for $150–400 net. Match your setup to the right upgrade path, not the r/LocalLLaMA hype.

Apr 30, 2026