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At NVIDIA's own list prices, a gigabyte of VRAM costs the same $62 on both cards. So the real question is which models you want. We ran 13 popular ones through our VRAM math, then priced renting each card by the hour.
Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 11 min
32GB does not unlock 70B models. It buys better quants and a much longer memory for the 27B to 35B class. Five picks that fit a 5090, with the math shown.
Aliteq Team · Oct 5 · 10 min
The $50 single-server colo deals include a fraction of the power a GPU box needs. What hosting a 1, 2 or 4 GPU machine really costs a month, per kilowatt, from providers' own price pages, and when an office closet or a rented GPU beats it.
Aliteq Team · Sep 27 · 11 min
Should a 10–50 person company buy a GPU server, rent one by the hour, or just pay per token? The three-year bill for each, from live rental prices, today's hardware prices and government power statistics. The answer for most small companies is not the one GPU vendors sell.
Aliteq Team · Sep 27 · 13 min
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.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min
Renting vs owning a GPU for AI isn't a taste debate — it's a break-even calculation. Here's the honest 2026 math: what an hour in the cloud costs, what a card costs to own, and the crossover where each one wins.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min
Two used RTX 3090s give you 48GB of VRAM for a third of a 5090's price — so is a dual-GPU build the smart move for local AI? The honest math, whether models really split across cards, and the power-and-complexity costs the sticker price hides.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min
At ~$4,600 for 32GB of VRAM, the RTX 5090 is either the only card that makes sense — or a tax on headroom you'll never use. An honest, VRAM-first buy call with the cheaper alternatives priced in.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min
AI demand spiked consumer GPU prices into a mid-2026 peak — and they're cooling off it now, unevenly. The current numbers vs MSRP, why the RTX 5090 won't budge, and what's actually worth buying.
Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 7 min
I priced out every rung of the local-AI hardware ladder this week. One tier is quietly the best deal on the list, and one isn't worth it at any price.
Aliteq Team · Aug 27 · 9 min
renting looks cheap by the hour. buying looks expensive by the receipt. only one of those numbers is honest
Aliteq Team · Aug 22 · 7 min
somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move
Aliteq Team · Aug 22 · 7 min
the discount headline is real, but it's not the interesting part. do the math on what the GPU alone costs right now and this deal gets a lot more interesting.
Aliteq Team · Aug 16 · 6 min
The one rule is buy VRAM, not benchmarks — and 2026's price surge is now cooling. My current, honest map: which card for which budget (Arc B580 to RTX 5090), what each actually runs, and when to rent or go unified-memory instead.
Aliteq Team · Aug 14 · 11 min
AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.
Aliteq Team · Aug 11 · 6 min
For four days in Texas you could buy an RTX 5090 at launch price. This week, Newegg's median RTX 5070 costs $240 more than it did in June.
Aliteq Team · Aug 11 · 6 min
QuakeCon 2026 is, right now, the one place on the planet where Nvidia's flagship still costs what it said on the box.
Aliteq Team · Aug 7 · 6 min
South Korea is the canary. TSMC wafer costs and $20 memory chips just pushed the RTX 5090 to 2.5x its sticker price — here's the actual buy-or-skip math for running AI models at home.
Aliteq Team · Aug 4 · 8 min
That is more than the RTX 5090's $1,999 launch price. We checked the launch figure, today's shelf prices, and what a plain RTX 5080 costs instead.
Aliteq Team · Jul 31 · 6 min
The RTX 5090 is the fastest card money can buy. It's also terrible value for pure gaming. Here's the 4K GPU you should actually buy in 2026, and why the $999 card beats the $1,999 one for most people.
Aliteq Team · Jul 31 · 11 min
To run a 70-billion-parameter model at home you need ~48GB of VRAM. Here's the build that gets you there — and why two cheaper cards beat one expensive one.
Aliteq Team · Jul 30 · 9 min
Measured at 102.7 tokens/sec — double a 3090 — with the only 32GB of VRAM in consumer land. Then the street price doubles the MSRP and the whole verdict flips. Both answers, with the math.
Aliteq Team · Jul 22 · 9 min
Two 3090s give you 48GB, but not double the speed for chat, because llama.cpp's default multi-GPU mode makes the cards take turns. What the benchmarks say, rechecked in October 2026.
Aliteq Team · Jul 21 · 11 min