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The Only GPUs Worth Buying For Local AI (October 2026)

Every price was checked on its page on 2026-10-16 (see PRICES.md). Speeds come from public benchmark boards and reviews. We ran no benchmarks of our own.

Prices

• RTX 5050 8GB, $419.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/msi-rtx-5050-8g-shadow-2x-oc-geforce-rtx-5050-8gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814137982
• RTX 5060 8GB, $469.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/asus-dual-rtx5060-o8g-geforce-rtx-5060-8gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814126807
• RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, $509.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-windforce-gv-n506twf2max-8gd-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-8gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814932834
• RX 9060 XT 8GB, $509.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-r9060xtgaming-oc-8gd-radeon-rx-9060-xt-8gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932807
• RX 9060 XT 16GB, $499.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/powercolor-reaper-rx9060xt-16g-a-radeon-rx-9060-xt-16gb-video-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814131880
• RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, $789.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/msi-rtx-5060-ti-16g-ventus-2x-oc-black-plus-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-16gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814137992
• RTX 3060 12GB new, $459.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-windforce-oc-gv-n3060wf2oc-12gd-rev2-0-geforce-rtx-3060-12gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/N82E16814932658
• Used RTX 3060 12GB going rate: https://rigprice.com/gpu/rtx-3060-12gb/
• Arc B580 marketplace listing: https://www.newegg.com/p/1WK-0040-00C87
• Used Arc B580 going rate: https://rigprice.com/gpu/arc-b580/
• RTX 5070 12GB, $859.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-n5070eagleoc-ice-12gd-geforce-rtx-5070-12gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932775
• RX 9070 XT 16GB, $799.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/powercolor-reaper-rx9070xt-16g-a-radeon-rx-9070-xt-16gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814131871
• RTX 5070 Ti 16GB, $1,169.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-windforce-gv-n507twf3oc-16gd-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-16gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932771
• RTX 5080 16GB, $1,849.99 marketplace at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/zotac-gaming-geforce-rtx-5080-solid-core-oc-16gb-video-card-icestorm-3-0/p/N82E16814500648
• Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB, $649.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/asrock-intel-arc-pro-b60-24gb-graphics/p/N82E16814930148
• Used RTX 3090 going rate: https://rigprice.com/gpu/rtx-3090/
• Used RTX 4090 going rate: https://rigprice.com/gpu/rtx-4090/
• Used RX 7900 XTX going rate: https://rigprice.com/gpu/rx-7900-xtx/
• RX 7900 XTX new listings at Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709&d=rx+7900+xtx&Order=1
• RTX 5090 32GB, $6,885.90 marketplace at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/p/1FT-000A-00930
• RTX 5090 Founders Edition, $8,499.99 marketplace at Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/nvidia-founder-edition-900-1g144-2530-000-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-double-fans/p/1FT-0004-008V4
• Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB, $1,699.99 at Newegg (October 16): https://www.newegg.com/asrock-creator-r9700-ct-radeon-ai-pro-r9700-32gb-graphics-card/p/N82E16814930143
• GMKtec EVO-X2 128GB, $3,499.99 direct (October 16): https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen%E2%84%A2-ai-max-395-evo-x2-ai-mini-pc?variant=48746069262490

Specifications

• NVIDIA memory bandwidth, RTX 50 series: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/compare/
• RX 7900 XTX specifications: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/desktops/radeon/7000-series/amd-radeon-rx-7900xtx.html
• Radeon AI PRO R9700 specifications: https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/workstations/radeon-ai-pro/ai-9000-series/amd-radeon-ai-pro-r9700.html
• RX 9070 XT specifications (640 GB/s): https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/desktops/radeon/9000-series/amd-radeon-rx-9070xt.html
• Ryzen AI Max+ 395 memory bandwidth (256 GB/s): https://apxml.com/hardware/amd-ryzen-ai-max-395-128gb

Speeds and software support

• llama.cpp CUDA benchmark board: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15013
• llama.cpp Vulkan benchmark board: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/10879
• llama.cpp ROCm benchmark board: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/15021
• Qwen 3.8 27B speeds on RTX 3090, RTX 4090, RTX 5090, 2x RTX 5060 Ti and M5 Max: https://www.hardware-corner.net/qwen3-8-27b-hardware-tests/
• ROCm Linux support matrix: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/radeon-ryzen/en/latest/docs/compatibility/compatibilityrad/native_linux/native_linux_compatibility.html
• ROCm Windows (HIP SDK 7.2) supported GPUs: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-windows/en/docs-7.2/reference/system-requirements.html
• IPEX-LLM archived: https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm

Models and sizes

• gpt-oss-20b GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF
• gpt-oss-120b active parameters: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/
• Llama 3.1 8B GGUF: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF
• Gemma 4 12B GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF
• Qwen3 14B GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-14B-GGUF
• Qwen 3.8 27B GGUF: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
• Qwen 3.8 27B smaller quants: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
• Qwen3 32B GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-32B-GGUF
• Llama 3.3 70B GGUF: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-GGUF