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AMD's Radeon AI PRO R9700 workstation graphics card

AMD just proved you don't need a graphics card to run a serious AI model at home

Day-zero support for the new Qwen3.8 27B just landed on two AMD boxes — one needs a graphics card, one doesn't — and the tokens-per-second numbers are real.

Lena Fischer · Aug 18 · 6 min

A compact desktop PC built for running local AI models at home

Hardware

Everyone's buying $4,700 'AI desktops' right now. A lab test just showed most people need way less

StorageReview ran real benchmarks on every local-AI desktop you can buy in 2026 — and the winner isn't what most shoppers assume.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 18 · 7 min

Compact AI mini PC on a desk next to a monitor

Deals

I priced a DIY local-AI PC against 3 prebuilt AI boxes — the GPU price spike changed the winner

Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 14 · 8 min

An AMD Radeon AI PRO workstation graphics card

Hardware

Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one

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.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 11 · 6 min