Best Local AI budgets & hardware - September 2026
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Best Local AI budgets & hardware - September 2026 Here's what you can run on them, and how they perform! ----- 1,600$ Hardware: RTX 3090 Memory: 24 GB Banwidth: 936 GB/s Pros: cuda + faster Hardware: Intel Arc B70 Memory: 32 GB Bandwidth: 608 GB/s pros: more vram + newer Model: qwen3.8-27B speed: 50 - 150 tok/s Score: Grok-4.6-low 35 AA / Opus-4.6-max 32 AA | vs 34 AA Good for: assistant / video editing / automations ----- 3,700$ Hardware: Framework Desktop - Strix Halo Memory: 128 GB Bandwidth: 256 GB/s Pros: tons of memory Model: qwen3.8-next-flash Speed: 40-80 tok/s Score: Opus-
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