Hardware Benchmarks — Gaming, AI & Synthetic Performance Data
Gaming FPS, AI inference tok/s, and synthetic benchmark data for 418 current-gen PC hardware SKUs. Sources: TechPowerUp, PassMark, Tom's Hardware, Geekbench, Phoronix, and the r/LocalLLaMA community.
Local-LLM GPU performance leaderboard
Aggregated from 835 source-cited community AI-inference measurements (plus 1,611 gaming + 1,678 synthetic benchmarks) across 190 GPUs / 458 tracked SKUs. Ranked by median single-stream generation throughput at Q4-class quantization — batch/aggregate throughput is excluded so cards are comparable.
7–9B class (Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen 2.5 7B) — median single-stream tok/s
| # | GPU | Median tok/s | Data points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB | 280.7 | 1 |
| 2 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 263.6 | 1 |
| 3 | NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB | 213.1 | 2 |
| 4 | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | 208.5 | 2 |
| 5 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 | 165.0 | 1 |
| 6 | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | 161.5 | 1 |
| 7 | RTX6000-Ada-3A | 153.5 | 2 |
| 8 | NVIDIA L40 48GB | 152.0 | 1 |
| 9 | NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB | 138.3 | 1 |
| 10 | NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB | 134.4 | 2 |
| 11 | RTX 6000 Ada Generation | 131.0 | 1 |
| 12 | RTX6000-Ada-6Q | 131.0 | 1 |
70B class (Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen 2.5 72B) — median single-stream tok/s
| # | GPU | Median tok/s | Data points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | 36.4 | 2 |
| 2 | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | 29.8 | 3 |
| 3 | GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER | 28.4 | 1 |
| 4 | NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB | 26.9 | 3 |
| 5 | Quadro RTX 5000 | 26.1 | 3 |
| 6 | NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB | 25.0 | 5 |
| 7 | NVIDIA A100 PCIe 40GB | 24.1 | 1 |
| 8 | Ryzen 7 7730U | 22.7 | 1 |
| 9 | Radeon RX 7900 XTX | 22.3 | 1 |
| 10 | NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB | 22.1 | 1 |
| 11 | Radeon RX 6650 XT | 18.5 | 1 |
| 12 | Ryzen 7 5800X | 18.5 | 1 |
Methodology: median of source-cited, community-reported single-stream tok/s (1–300 range) at Q4-class quantization; each GPU links to its full benchmark page with per-row sources. Figures vary by runtime, context length, and quant — treat as directional.
APUs
CPUs
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D 11 benchmarks · AMD · 2025 · $599 MSRP -
Apple M3 Ultra 14 benchmarks · Apple · 2025
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Ryzen 9 9950X3D 12 benchmarks · AMD · 2025 · $699 MSRP -
Apple M4 24 benchmarks · Apple · 2024
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Apple M4 Max 25 benchmarks · Apple · 2024 -
Apple M4 Pro 14 benchmarks · Apple · 2024 -
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K 9 benchmarks · Intel · 2024 · $309 MSRP
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265K 13 benchmarks · Intel · 2024 · $394 MSRP -
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 13 benchmarks · Intel · 2024 · $589 MSRP -
Ryzen 5 9600X 11 benchmarks · AMD · 2024 · $279 MSRP -
Ryzen 7 9700X 9 benchmarks · AMD · 2024 · $359 MSRP -
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 9 benchmarks · AMD · 2024 · $479 MSRP -
Ryzen 9 9950X 3 benchmarks · AMD · 2024 · $649 MSRP -
Intel Core i5-14600K 2 benchmarks · Intel · 2023 · $319 MSRP
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Intel Core i7-14700K 3 benchmarks · Intel · 2023 · $409 MSRP -
Intel Core i9-14900K 7 benchmarks · Intel · 2023 · $589 MSRP -
Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4 benchmarks · AMD · 2023 · $449 MSRP -
Intel Core i5-13600K 2 benchmarks · Intel · 2022 · $319 MSRP -
Intel Core i7-13700K 2 benchmarks · Intel · 2022 · $409 MSRP -
Intel Core i9-13900K 3 benchmarks · Intel · 2022 · $589 MSRP -
Ryzen 5 5600 2 benchmarks · AMD · 2022 · $199 MSRP -
Ryzen 7 5800X3D 5 benchmarks · AMD · 2022 · $449 MSRP
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Ryzen 5 5600X 5 benchmarks · AMD · 2020 · $299 MSRP -
Ryzen 7 5800X 6 benchmarks · AMD · 2020 · $449 MSRP
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