A ~€1600 local LLM rig: i7-14700KF + RX 9070XT hits 70-90 tokens/sec
Snoo-2768 · reddit · 2026-10-24
The author shares a €1600 budget-friendly local inference setup:
- CPU: Intel i7-14700KF with 64 GB RAM
- GPU: Radeon RX 9070XT 16GB
- Inference engine: the open-source strata
- Model: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-Q20
It runs at roughly 70-90 tokens/sec.
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