CALIBRATED 2026-07-27 · REC 003
Local AI Frontier

FRONTIER BUILDS · TESTED RECIPES

Build recipes

Complete rigs matched to budget and workload. Each is built and tested in the lab, with the linked benchmark proving the numbers. Prices are dated — treat them as ranges, not quotes.

ENTRY

Budget Arc Coder

$1,200

PRICED 2026-07-17

Code completion & chat with 7B–13B models, occasional 30B at Q4

GPU
Intel Arc B580 12GB
VRAM
12 GB
RAM
32 GB
BACKEND
vulkan
intel-arcbm-003

MID

Mid AMD Multi-Tool

$2,200

PRICED 2026-07-17

30B-class models daily, 70B at Q3 with offload, RAG pipelines

GPU
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB
VRAM
24 GB
RAM
64 GB
BACKEND
vulkan
AFFILIATE

MID

Arc Pro Frontier

$2,400

PRICED 2026-07-17

30B coder models, sales-call rehearsal (MoreYess workload), structured output

GPU
Intel Arc B60 Pro 24GB
VRAM
24 GB
RAM
64 GB
BACKEND
vulkan
intel-arcbm-001
AFFILIATE

HIGH

CUDA Reference

$3,500

PRICED 2026-07-17

Latency-sensitive workloads, agent loops, anything needing cuBLAS

GPU
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
VRAM
24 GB
RAM
64 GB
BACKEND
cuda
nvidiabm-002
AFFILIATE

HIGH

Dual AMD Throughput

$4,200

PRICED 2026-07-17

Parallel serving, batch inference, multi-model routing

GPU
2× AMD Radeon RX 9700
VRAM
32 GB
RAM
96 GB
BACKEND
vulkan
multi-gpubm-001
AFFILIATE