About local.ai
local.ai provides independent benchmarks comparing AI model intelligence, speed, energy consumption, and hardware across Apple silicon and NVIDIA GPUs. It evaluates complete local system setups to help users find the optimal configuration for their workloads.
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Key Features
- Provides independent benchmarks across models, quants, harnesses, and hardware
- Measures end-to-end task time, prefill and decode speeds, and energy use
- Compares Apple silicon and NVIDIA GPUs on realistic real-world workloads
- Evaluates impact of quantization and speculative decoding configurations
- Offers clean visual comparisons without vendor bias or commercial affiliation
- Early access platform with continuous additions to benchmark coverage
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