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Thumbnail: 16 to 96GB VRAM, cheapest first. Used, new or rented, priced Nov 6. Vast.ai and Runpod logos, a line drawing of a graphics card, and a card reading 24GB used RTX 3090, eBay US average, $1,591, ResalePrices, read Nov 6, 2026

What's the cheapest way to get 16, 24, 32, 48 or 96GB of VRAM for local AI right now?

The cheapest card for each memory size, used, new and rented by the hour, with every price dated and sourced (Nov 6, 2026). Two surprises: a 48GB workstation card now costs less than half a street-price RTX 5090, and the cheapest 96GB isn't a graphics card at all.

Aliteq Team · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · 9 min

rows of server infrastructure representing large-scale cloud computing

Hardware

Qwen3.8-Max open weights (2.4T-A95B): what it takes to run, and the 27B you can actually run

Alibaba put its Max-class model on Hugging Face as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B. The download is 2.5 TB in FP8 and the smallest community quant is still 397 GB. Here is the file-size math, the license, and the sibling that fits a 24 GB card.

Aliteq Team · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · 8 min

An Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card on a dark background

Hardware

RTX 5070 Ti price increase: $749 MSRP, $1,189.99 at Best Buy today

NVIDIA never changed the list price. The shelf did. What the RTX 5070 Ti actually costs in October 2026, why, and when an RTX 5080 is a worse buy at the same 16GB.

Aliteq Team · Updated Oct 4, 2026 · 6 min