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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Inkling-Small Weights Are Live: 276B Params, an 88GB Quant, and the First Single-Card Path to a Frontier-Class Model
Inkling-Small's 276B-A12B open weights landed July 30. Real Unsloth GGUF sizes, which hardware fits the 87.9GB 2-bit quant, and honest tok/s expectations.
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Unified-Memory AI PCs Are Suddenly 75% More Expensive: What the EVO-X2 and RTX PRO 6000 Price Surge Means for Home Lab Buyers (Mid-2026)
The GMKtec EVO-X2 128GB now debuts at $3,499 (was $1,999) and the RTX PRO 6000 hit $13,250. The mid-2026 price surge, tier by tier, and what to buy now.
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Qwen3.6-27B NVFP4 Dynamic Quants: What Unsloth's 2.5× Speedup Actually Delivers on RTX 50-Series (2026)
Unsloth's July 10 NVFP4 dynamic quants make Qwen3.6-27B ~2.5× faster on Blackwell GPUs. Real tok/s numbers, the 14GB VRAM math, and why RTX 4090 owners gain nothing.
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Local AI Crawling on Windows? Shared GPU Memory Is Why — the NVIDIA Sysmem Fallback Fix (2026)
Fix the silent 10x slowdown when local AI spills into shared GPU memory on Windows: what NVIDIA's sysmem fallback does, how to spot it in Task Manager, and when to turn it off.
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Kimi K3 Open Weights Are Live: The Real 1.56TB Download, the License Fine Print, and What Can Actually Serve It
Kimi K3's open weights landed July 27: 96 shards, 1.56TB, 104B active params confirmed. The license terms, vLLM day-0 numbers, and the llama.cpp reality.
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