NVIDIA
Architecture
Blackwell is NVIDIA's fifth-generation RTX architecture, built on TSMC's 4NP process. It introduces 5th-generation Tensor Cores with native FP4 precision support, enabling double the inference throughput per watt compared to Ada Lovelace's FP8 operations. Key innovations include the Neural Rendering Pipeline for AI-driven shading and the debut of GDDR7 memory in consumer GPUs.
AI Relevance
FP4 Tensor Cores deliver the highest tokens-per-watt efficiency in any consumer architecture. Native FP4 quantization means models can run at lower precision with minimal quality loss, effectively doubling the effective VRAM for model weights.
Agentic Coding
BThis model is still usable for agentic-coding, but it is not the most specialized pick. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Chat
CThis model is a direct match for chat. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Coding
CThis model is a direct match for coding. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
RAG
BThis model is a direct match for rag. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, ollama, lm-studio.
Reasoning
CThis model is a direct match for reasoning. It belongs to a current frontier family for local AI. It fits natively with comfortable headroom. Known channels: huggingface, lm-studio.
Devstral 2 123B InstructMixtral 8x22B
Qwen 3 235B A22B
Command A 111B
Qwen3.5 122B A10BMistral Small 4 119BQwen 2.5 72BQwen 2.5 VL 72B
Llama 3.3 70BQwen3-Coder-NextQwen3.5 35B A3BQwen 2.5 Coder 32BQwen3.5 27Bgemma 3 27b itQwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen3-VL 30B A3B InstructDevstral Small 2 24B InstructDevstral Small 1.1Codestral 2 25.08Qwen3.5 9BDeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQwen3.5 4B
gemma 2bQwen2.5 3B InstructQwen2.5 1.5B Instruct
DeepSeek R1 671B
GLM-5
Kimi K2.5Mistral Large 3Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructDeepSeek V3 671BQwen3.5 397B A17BLlama 4 Maverick 17B 128EJust out of reach
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