Hunting a $50 AMD v340l 16GB from 2018 to run local LLMs amid GPU price surge
According_Study_162 · reddit · 2026-09-16
With GPU prices surging, the author considers a $50 AMD v340l 16GB (2018) for local LLM inference, after missing a $1300 R9700 and a $300-400 v620. Plan: Proxmox with PCIe passthrough and custom vbios, hacking a llama.cpp or ROCm build (untested dev builds exist, otherwise Vulkan), and combining it with an RX 7600 XT for larger models, mainly for agentic coding.
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