We took a stock Asus TUF gaming laptop with an RTX 3070 and 8 GB of video memory, and benched eight local models overnight across ten tasks. The result that surprised us: a 30 billion parameter model with two thirds of itself off the card beat a 14 billion parameter model that fit better, by nearly four times. File size does not predict speed. All 103 measured rows are free below, failures included.
We ran MiniMax H3 for a full day on a single RTX 5090: talking shots driven by our own voice track, a walk and talk, text to speech, a trained voice, and an eight scene short film with its own soundtrack. Every number here came off our machine. So did the mistakes.
We benched LTX-2.5 for two full rounds and got confident, wrong answers, because the official templates ship an LLM prompt rewriter that is on by default and buried inside a subgraph. Here is how to find it, how to actually turn it off, and what the model does once your prompts reach it intact.