Benchmarking DeepSeek on Dual RTX 3060 with 96GB RAM: Speed and Cost Analysis
esw123 · reddit · 2026-08-02
A developer shared benchmark results running a DeepSeek model using dual RTX 3060 GPUs and 96GB of RAM via Unsloth Studio.
- Hardware: Ryzen 7500F CPU, two RTX 3060s (on PCIe 5.0 x16 and PCIe 3.0 x1 lanes respectively), and 96GB 5600MHz RAM.
- Performance: The generation speed hovered around 3.5 tok/s, taking roughly 16 minutes to generate 4,338 tokens.
- Power & Cost: Both GPUs were undervolted to 0.9V (30-40W each). The total task consumed an estimated 35 watts, costing approximately €0.0059 in electricity.
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