Local AI hardware

21 configurations across 10 products. Sorted by memory bandwidth, because single-stream decode speed is almost entirely a function of it. Prices are Dutch retail including 21% VAT, and every price states whether it is a published list price or our derivation.

All configurations (21)
ConfigurationArchitectureMemoryBandwidthAchievedLoad powerPriceGB/s per €1k
Quad RTX 5090 workstation (4x 32 GB)
NVIDIA
4× GPU128 GB7,168 GB/s79%2250 W€13.999 *405
Dual RTX 5090 workstation (2x 32 GB)
NVIDIA
2× GPU64 GB3,584 GB/s79%1180 W€6.499 *437
Dual used RTX 4090 workstation (48 GB)
NVIDIA
2× GPU48 GB2,016 GB/s78%980 W€4.099 *384
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation (96 GB)
NVIDIA
Discrete GPU96 GB1,792 GB/s74%660 W€11.499 *116
RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q workstation (96 GB, 300 W)
NVIDIA
Discrete GPU96 GB1,792 GB/s74%390 W€11.999 *111
RTX 5090 workstation (1x 32 GB)
NVIDIA
Discrete GPU32 GB1,792 GB/s79%640 W€3.699 *384
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512 GB
Apple · announced
Unified memory512 GB1,200 GB/s88%225 W€12.599 *83
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256 GB
Apple
Unified memory256 GB1,200 GB/s88%215 W€9.599 *110
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96 GB
Apple
Unified memory96 GB1,200 GB/s88%190 W€6.599159
Used RTX 4090 workstation (24 GB)
NVIDIA
Discrete GPU24 GB1,008 GB/s80%520 W€2.299 *351
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512 GB
Apple · superseded
Unified memory512 GB819 GB/s71%205 W€9.199 *63
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB
Apple · superseded
Unified memory256 GB819 GB/s71%195 W€6.299 *92
Radeon AI PRO R9700 workstation (32 GB)
AMD
Discrete GPU32 GB644 GB/s95%420 W€2.799 *219
Mac Studio M5 Max 128 GB
Apple
Unified memory128 GB614 GB/s88%122 W€4.799 *112
Mac Studio M5 Max 64 GB
Apple
Unified memory64 GB614 GB/s88%118 W€3.899 *138
Mac Studio M5 Max 36 GB
Apple
Unified memory36 GB614 GB/s88%105 W€2.999179
NVIDIA DGX Spark 128 GB
NVIDIA
Unified LPDDR128 GB273 GB/s67%170 W€4.299 *43
Mac mini M4 Pro 64 GB
Apple
Unified memory64 GB273 GB/s70%62 W€2.499 *76
Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB)
AMD
Unified LPDDR128 GB256 GB/s48%130 W€2.399 *51
GMKtec EVO-X2 (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB)
AMD
Unified LPDDR128 GB256 GB/s42%135 W€1.899 *56
CPU-only workstation (Ryzen 9950X, 192 GB DDR5)
Generic
Discrete GPU192 GB90 GB/s50%190 W€1.699 *26

* Derived price rather than a published list price — the configuration page explains how each was arrived at. “Achieved” is the fraction of theoretical bandwidth real inference engines reach on that platform; where we have measurements it is calibrated from them, and otherwise inherited from a sibling configuration with the same silicon.