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
CThis 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, ollama, 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, ollama, 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, ollama, lm-studio.
RAG
BThis model is a direct match for rag. It sits in the middle of the current model mix. 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, ollama, lm-studio.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32BQwen3-Coder 30B A3B InstructQwen3-VL 30B A3B InstructQwen3.5 27Bgemma 3 27b it
Devstral Small 2 24B InstructDevstral Small 1.1Codestral 2 25.08Qwen3.5 9BDeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQwen3.5 4BQwen2.5 3B Instruct
gemma 2bQwen2.5 1.5B InstructQwen3-Coder-Next
DeepSeek R1 671BDevstral 2 123B Instruct
GLM-5
Kimi K2.5Mistral Large 3Mistral Small 4 119BQwen3-Coder 480B A35B InstructQwen3.5 122B A10BDeepSeek V3 671BMixtral 8x22BQwen 2.5 72BQwen 3 235B A22BQwen3.5 397B A17B
Llama 3.3 70BLlama 4 Maverick 17B 128E
Command A 111BQwen 2.5 VL 72BJust out of reach
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Upgrade paths
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Upgrade options
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