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Hardware

The Best GPU for Llama 4 Scout in 2026 (VRAM-First, Honest)

Scout is mixture-of-experts, so you're buying for 109B in memory, not 17B active. The honest GPU ladder — why a 32GB card is the sweet spot, when 24GB works, and when unified memory beats them all.

Voltage · 6d ago · 8 min

AI

the best GPU for Stable Diffusion in 2026 isn't about raw power — it's about which one won't make you wait

Image generation is compute-bound and VRAM-hungry in a different way than LLMs. Here's the GPU that actually keeps up with SDXL and Flux, and the cheapest one that still does the job.

Voltage · Jul 28 · 9 min

AI

the best GPU for running Qwen3-32B locally isn't the fastest one — it's the cheapest with 24GB

Qwen3-32B at Q4 needs about 20GB of VRAM, which rules out every 16GB card and makes this a simple question: what's the cheapest 24GB GPU that runs it well? The answer is used.

Voltage · Jul 28 · 9 min