Selling a 5090 to scale local inference: one business weighs 5 hardware paths
Anarchaotic · reddit · 2026-10-27
A small-business owner running sensitive local AI workloads (Qwen at 200k context, 3+ concurrent users) weighs selling a 5090 FE to rebuild around Strix Halo, a 256GB Mac Studio, a 5070 Ti split, or 4x Radeon R9700 — with DGX Spark ruled out on price. Current Strix Halo does 1400 prefill / 50 tok/s.
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