I run local AI at home on 4 DGX Sparks, 1 M5U 256GB, 1 RTX 5090, 2 RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and rank what runs best on the machine you own. LLMs, image/video gen. etc
Ten months ago I started buying hardware to run AI at home.
I paid €20,992. Buying it all new today: €30,992 (+47.6%).
And the same boxes now run stronger models much faster.
What happened, and why I don't think prices come down: