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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.

Three open-weight models, one RTX 5090, and the same jobs: a real bug, playable games, tool calling, long documents. Measured numbers, two defaults that were quietly breaking the results, and the finding we published wrong and had to correct.