Local AI Index

• Two kinds of box are listed. Big boxes have 32 GB or more of GPU memory, at any price. Cheap boxes have 16 GB or more and cost €1,500 or less. 16 to 31 GB runs 7B to 32B models at 4-bit; a 70B model needs 48 GB or more.
• Score blends three groups: AI power 50%, experts 30%, users 20%.
• AI power comes from the specs: GPU memory (16–512 GB) and memory speed (64–1024 GB/s), each on a log scale. FP16 TFLOPS is counted once at least 3 in 4 machines have it; most makers do not publish it, so today it is shown only.
• Each review site is compared only with its own other ratings, so strict and generous sites count the same.
• 80 is the field average. Machines with few reviews are pulled toward 80. A hollow score marker means 0–2 reviews or buyer ratings. Shop ratings from the maker's own store are shown but not counted.
• Every machine gets a score from its specs. Only machines with at least one review or buyer rating get a rank; the others sit under the line.
• The rank number is the rank inside the tab you are on. All mixes every chip maker.
• Big-model fit (0–5) adds one point each for 48 GB+ of GPU memory (a 70B model fits at 4-bit), 96 GB+ (a 120B model fits), memory speed of 250 GB/s+, software (CUDA or MLX; ROCm or Vulkan only count half) and a fast link for clusters (10 GbE, Thunderbolt 5, USB4 v2 or QSFP).
• GPU memory is the most the maker's own tools let the GPU use without system changes. For older AMD chips without Variable Graphics Memory (Ryzen 7000 and 8000, H 255) it is the larger of the BIOS cap and Windows' shared-memory limit: 16 GB on 32 GB of RAM, 48 GB on 64 GB. The note in each row says where the number comes from and what tuning allows, where known.
• Est. 70B speed is memory speed × 0.65 ÷ 42.5 GB, in tokens per second, for a 70B model at Q4_K_M. It is shown from 48 GB of GPU memory; below that the model does not fit. Measured speeds from reviews are in each row.
• Value is (score − 70) × (median price of all machines ÷ its price). Higher means more for your money. Its shade shows the rank among all machines.
• Vienna price is the lowest new price in an Austrian shop or on Geizhals.at. EU marks the maker's own EU shop and DE a German shop, when nothing Austrian turned up. Prices change daily.

Gaps: 0 Apple machines, 19 AMD machines, 4 NVIDIA machines and 5 Intel machines have no reviews or buyer ratings yet, and 12 machines have no price yet. They show a dash.

144 sites were used. Every number links to its source inside its row.