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October 2026 Local AI Buyer’s Sheet (Members)

Every price below was read on its live listing on October 10th 2026, with the item in stock and buyable at that moment. New GPU prices are the cheapest in-stock new listing sold by Newegg. Used GPU prices are active eBay asking prices (screened listings via RigPrice), never sold prices. Apple prices are Apple’s own store. Dollars per gigabyte is the price divided by the card’s video memory, or by the machine’s unified or system memory.

8 to 12 GB

product price seller memory $/GB
Intel Arc B580 12GB (ASRock Challenger) $329.99 Newegg 12 GB 27.50
RTX 3060 12GB, used $350 cheapest ask, $370 typical eBay (RigPrice) 12 GB 29.17
RTX 3060 12GB, new (Gigabyte WindForce OC) $459.99 Newegg 12 GB 38.33
RTX 5070 12GB (Gigabyte WindForce) $839.99 Newegg 12 GB 70.00

16 GB

product price seller memory $/GB
RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (MSI Gaming Trio OC) $799.99 Newegg 16 GB 50.00
RX 9070 XT 16GB (ASUS Prime) $829.00 Newegg 16 GB 51.81
Mac mini M6, 16GB, 256GB $899 Apple 16 GB unified 56.19
RTX 5070 Ti 16GB (Gigabyte WindForce) $1,169.99 Newegg 16 GB 73.12
RTX 5080 16GB (MSI Shadow 3X OC) $1,689.99 Newegg 16 GB 105.62

Published speed, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB: 25.9 tokens per second generating with Qwen3 14B (Q4_K) at 32k context (41.1 at 4k, 32.9 at 16k). Hardware Corner, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB LLM benchmarks: https://www.hardware-corner.net/gpu-llm-benchmarks/rtx-5060-ti-16gb/

24 GB

product price seller memory $/GB
Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB (ASRock) $649.99 Newegg 24 GB 27.08
RTX 3090 24GB, used $1,600 cheapest plain used, $1,619 typical eBay (RigPrice) 24 GB about 67
Mac mini M5 Pro, 24GB, 512GB $1,699 Apple 24 GB unified 70.79
RTX 4090 24GB, used $3,280 cheapest, $3,500 typical eBay (RigPrice) 24 GB 136.67

Published speeds, Qwen 3.8 27B (Q4_K Small, 16.68 GiB) at 4k context: RTX 3090 40.31 tokens per second, RTX 4090 46.16 tokens per second. Hardware Corner, Qwen 3.8 27B hardware tests: https://www.hardware-corner.net/qwen3-8-27b-hardware-tests/

32 to 36 GB

product price seller memory $/GB
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB (PowerColor) $1,699.99 Newegg 32 GB 53.12
Mac Studio M5 Max, 36GB, 512GB (base) $2,499 Apple 36 GB unified 69.42

Published speed, one R9700, one user: DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B at 34.5 tokens per second. Puget Systems corrected this in September 2026 from an earlier 61.7, which a tokenizer setting had inflated. Puget Systems, AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 dual GPU AI inference performance: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/amd-radeon-ai-pro-r9700-dual-gpu-ai-inference-performance/

48 to 128 GB

product price seller memory $/GB
GMKtec EVO-X2, Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB, 1TB $3,499.99 GMKtec direct 128 GB 27.34
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Pro 16-inch M5 Max, 48GB, 2TB $4,249 Apple 48 GB unified 88.52
MacBook Pro 14-inch M5 Max, 64GB, 2TB $5,099 (1 to 2 week delivery) Apple 64 GB unified 79.67
MacBook Pro 14-inch M5 Max, 128GB, 2TB $6,699 (4 to 6 business days) Apple 128 GB unified 52.34

96 GB

product price seller memory $/GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 96GB $16,499.99 Newegg 96 GB 171.87

Not buyable on October 10th

Marketplace listings left out of the picks

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