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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ASUS Ascent GX10 vs NVIDIA DGX Spark in 2026: Same GB10 Chip, Same Speed — So What Does the NVIDIA Badge Cost?
ASUS Ascent GX10 vs NVIDIA DGX Spark: identical GB10 silicon and tok/s, different storage, prices, and update paths. Real September 2026 prices and which to buy.
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RTX PRO 6000 vs Dual RTX 5090 for Local AI in 2026: 96GB in One Slot vs 64GB in Two — and a $5,000 Gap
RTX PRO 6000 (96GB) vs dual RTX 5090 (64GB) for local AI: verified September 2026 prices, real 70B and gpt-oss-120b tok/s, power math, and which to buy.
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DGX Spark vs Mac Studio M5 Max in 2026: $4,699 vs $5,099 for 128GB — CUDA or 2.2× the Bandwidth
DGX Spark vs Mac Studio M5 Max for local AI: same 128GB, but 273 vs 614 GB/s decode and a petaFLOP prefill gap. Real tok/s, current prices, which to buy.
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Beelink GTR9 Pro vs GMKtec EVO-X2 in 2026: Same Chip, Same 31 tok/s — So You're Buying Cooling, 10GbE, and a Price Roll
Beelink GTR9 Pro vs GMKtec EVO-X2: identical Ryzen AI Max+ 395 inference (~31 tok/s on gpt-oss 120B), so the real differences are noise, networking, and price.
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Minisforum MS-S1 Max vs GMKtec EVO-X2 in 2026: The $800 Premium the DRAM Crisis Just Erased
Minisforum MS-S1 Max vs GMKtec EVO-X2: identical ~31 tok/s Strix Halo inference, but the price gap inverted — the 'premium' box with 10GbE and a PCIe slot is now cheaper.
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