Consumer GPUs got 12x faster at running LLMs in 2 years; local frontier models predicted by 2027
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-08-24
The author compares two snapshots: in 2024, a gaming PC with an RTX 4090 ran Llama 3 70B at 2 tok/s in 4-bit; by 2026, an RTX 5090 machine runs DeepSeek-V4-Flash 284B at 24 tok/s with native mxfp4 — roughly a 12x speedup while parameter count grew 4x. Prediction: by end of 2027, a gaming PC will run Fable 5-class intelligence locally at decent speed.
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