
Running Open-Weight LLMs on Consumer Hardware: The 2026 Quantization & Performance Benchmark
We benchmarked DeepSeek-V3/R1, Llama 3.3 70B, and Mistral across Apple Silicon M-series, RTX 4090/5090, and modern CPUs. Here is the definitive guide to quantization formats, token speeds, and memory limits.
Mr. Alex Jas
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