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Every catalog hardware unit ranked by composite score (0–1000): measured tok/s, VRAM fit, ecosystem support, perf-per-watt. 2 of 154 ranks anchored to a measured benchmark — the rest are honestly flagged as extrapolated or estimated.

Methodology: /methodology · Run your own: curl -fsSL runlocalai.co/bench.mjs -o bench.mjs && node bench.mjs

Vendor:Allamdapplegoogleintelnvidiaqualcomm
VRAM:All≤8GB9–16GB17–24GB25–48GB49–96GB97GB+
Tier:AllSABCD
Data:AllMeasuredMeasured-nearCommunityExtrapolatedEstimated

53 units shown · sorted by score

#HardwareTierScoreThroughputVRAM-fitEcosystemEfficiencyData
1NVIDIA RTX A6000 (Ampere)
nvidia · workstation · 48GB
C47726719020025Estimated
2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
nvidia · high · 16GB
C47731214020029Estimated
3NVIDIA RTX A5000
nvidia · workstation · 24GB
C46826717020032Estimated
4NVIDIA A40
nvidia · workstation · 48GB
C45824219020022Estimated
5Apple M4 Max
apple · enthusiast
C45722220017061Estimated
6NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
nvidia · enthusiast · 12GB
C45631711020025Estimated
7NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB
nvidia · high · 12GB
C45631711020025Estimated
8NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell
nvidia · workstation · 24GB
C45523417020046Estimated
9MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max
apple · enthusiast
C44522220017044Estimated
10Apple Mac Studio (M4 Max)
apple · enthusiast
C43822219017044Estimated
11NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super
nvidia · high · 16GB
C43325614020022Estimated
12NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
nvidia · high · 16GB
C42825014020022Estimated
13AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
amd · enthusiast · 24GB
C42027817013022Estimated
14NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super
nvidia · high · 16GB
C41823414020023Estimated
15NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation
nvidia · workstation · 32GB
C41420017020022Estimated
16NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (China-mod)
nvidia · mid · 22GB
C40521414020024Estimated
17Apple M1 Max
apple · high
C40416217017075Estimated
18Apple M2 Max
apple · high
C40016219017050Estimated
19NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile
nvidia · enthusiast · 16GB
C40020014020032Estimated
20NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
nvidia · mid · 12GB
C39923411020026Estimated
21Apple M3 Max
apple · enthusiast
C39816219017047Estimated
22NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB
nvidia · high · 10GB
C3972648020023Estimated
23AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
amd · enthusiast · 20GB
C36523214013020Estimated
24NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
nvidia · mid · 16GB
C36415614020024Estimated
25NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
nvidia · enthusiast · 11GB
C3632148020024Estimated
26NVIDIA L4
nvidia · workstation · 24GB
C36010417020040Estimated
27NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
nvidia · high · 8GB
C3582128020020Estimated
28NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
nvidia · mid · 12GB
C35617511020024Estimated
29NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
nvidia · mid · 12GB
C35517511020022Estimated
30Apple M4 Pro
apple · high
C35111117017051Estimated
31NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
nvidia · high · 12GB
C35117511020017Estimated
32Apple Mac Mini (M4 Pro)
apple · high
C34011117017034Estimated
33AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
amd · mid · 16GB
C33918614013028Estimated
34NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
nvidia · high · 12GB
C33713411020037Estimated
35AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
amd · high · 16GB
C33218714013017Estimated
36AMD Radeon RX 9070
amd · high · 16GB
C33218114013023Estimated
37NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super
nvidia · high · 8GB
C3301738020019Estimated
38AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
amd · high · 16GB
C32918114013019Estimated
39NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
nvidia · high · 11GB
C3271688020019Estimated
40NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
nvidia · entry · 8GB
C3261568020029Estimated
41NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
nvidia · high · 8GB
C3231568020025Estimated
42NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super
nvidia · mid · 8GB
C3231568020025Estimated
43NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
nvidia · mid · 8GB
C3221568020024Estimated
44NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
nvidia · high · 8GB
C3211568020022Estimated
45NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
nvidia · mid · 16GB
C32010014020017Estimated
46NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
nvidia · mid · 12GB
C31912511020020Estimated
47NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
nvidia · mid · 8GB
C3191568020020Estimated
48AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE
amd · high · 16GB
C31916714013018Estimated
49NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
nvidia · high · 8GB
C3191568020020Estimated
50AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT
amd · enthusiast · 16GB
C31616714013014Estimated
51AMD Radeon RX 6800
amd · high · 16GB
C30414814013016Estimated
52AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
amd · enthusiast · 16GB
C30214814013014Estimated
53AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
amd · enthusiast · 16GB
C30214814013014Estimated
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HOW THE SCORE IS DERIVED
Throughput · 0–500

Steady-state tok/s on a representative 7B/8B Q4 model. Measured from real benchmark rows, or extrapolated from VRAM bandwidth × runtime-stack efficiency.

VRAM-fit · 0–200

How comfortably the rig holds 7B / 32B / 70B class models. Apple unified memory counts; NPU/SoC system RAM counts.

Ecosystem · 0–200

CUDA / MLX / ROCm / Vulkan reach. Real-world friction the operator hits when installing tools.

Efficiency · 0–100

Tok/s per watt. Mobile / NPU class scores well; dense desktop GPUs trade efficiency for absolute throughput.

A confidence multiplier (1.0 measured · 0.85 extrapolated · 0.7 estimated) discounts the headline so we don't pretend to know more than we do. Score is recomputed on every page load against the latest catalog + benchmark data — submit your own run with runlocalai-bench --submit --hardware your-rig to firm up the numbers.