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RTX 5090 (llm-speed signed runs, Oct 2026): gpt-oss 20B 324 tok/s, Qwen3.8 27B 75 tok/s

GPU(s)RTX 5090
Amazon · eBay (used) · Newegg
VRAM / unified memory (GB)32
CPUAMD EPYC 7543 (Qwen3.8 run: EPYC 9534)
Amazon · eBay (used) · Newegg
Motherboard
RAM
PSU
OtherServer hosts; llm-speed suite-v1 chat-short workload (128-token prompt, 256 tokens out, batch 1)
Reported total cost
Power

Measured speed (generation tokens/sec)

📏 How measured: reported by the original source; RigBase re-checked the numbers at that source

ModelQuantEnginetok/sDetails
gpt-oss 20Breported as Q4_K_Mllama.cpp 0.7.0-dev324.2
Qwen3.6 27BQ4_K_Mllama.cpp 0.7.0-dev75.1
Qwen3.8 27BQ4_K_M (EPYC 9534 host)llama.cpp 0.7.0-dev (b11669)75.2

Signed community runs on llm-speed.com, 15-17 Oct 2026. Decode tok/s from the chat-short workload; the chat-long (4K prompt) runs were 311.0 (gpt-oss 20B), 74.5 (Qwen3.6 27B) and 74.6 (Qwen3.8 27B). Signing records provenance, not independent hardware verification.

Current GPU street price (estimate, not the builder's cost)Estimated GPU cost for this build today: ≈€6,199
New retail prices in Germany incl. VAT; used cards are often much cheaper. Prices change daily.

Source: https://llm-speed.com/r/r_dwp5fgdapmw
https://llm-speed.com/r/r_pob-co51bd-
https://llm-speed.com/r/r_qfrb2zmyk0k

Blank fields = not stated in the source. We never estimate build data; GPU street prices above are separately sourced and dated.

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