Real benchmarks. Real hardware. Real costs.
Run AI at home, practically.
GPU benchmarks, local LLM tutorials, ComfyUI workflows, and self-hosted AI guides for the home lab crowd. Tested on the cards you can actually buy.
What we cover
Four corners of the home AI lab.
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GPU Benchmarks
Real numbers for Stable Diffusion, Flux, ComfyUI, and local LLMs across the cards normal humans can afford.
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Local LLM Tutorials
Step-by-step Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and quantized model picks that fit your VRAM, not a datacenter's.
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ComfyUI & Image Gen
Workflows that work, LoRA training on limited VRAM, and node setups without the YouTube guesswork.
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Self-Hosted Stack
Open WebUI, n8n automations, privacy-first infra. Your data, your hardware, your rules.
Latest posts
Fresh from the bench.
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LTX-2.5 for Local AI Video in 2026: The 22B Model That Fits a 24GB Card — Real VRAM and Speed Numbers
LTX-2.5 hardware guide: measured VRAM on RTX 4090, real generation times from RTX 3090 to RTX 5090, the int8 ComfyUI path, and which GPU tier runs it.
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Intel Arc Pro B70 for Local AI in 2026: 32GB Was $949 — Now It's $1,268 and the Software Gap Is the Real Price
Intel Arc Pro B70 hardware guide: real Qwen tok/s numbers on SYCL vs Vulkan, the GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_OPT bug, August price data, and who should buy 32GB Intel.
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NVIDIA OpenShell on Windows in 2026: The WSL2 Catch, Real VRAM Numbers, and a Setup That Actually Works
NVIDIA OpenShell runs AI agents in policy-enforced sandboxes — on Windows only via WSL2 (experimental). Setup guide, inference.local routing, and GPU VRAM tiers.
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Consumer GPUs in 2026: The 25GB Q4 Catch, and Real Speeds From RTX 5090 to M4 Max
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B VRAM requirements by GPU: the 25GB Q4_K_M that skips 24GB cards, 123 tok/s on RTX 5090, and what the 4x speed claim really means.
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RTX 5090 vs Dual AMD R9700 for Local AI in 2026: 32GB Fast or 64GB Cheap?
RTX 5090 vs dual Radeon AI PRO R9700 for local LLMs: real llama-bench numbers on 35B MoE and 70B models, August 2026 prices, and which buyer each one fits.
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