
Wan 2.2 Locally: I Benched 5B vs 14B on One Card
Everyone’s arguing about Wan 2.2. So we ran it locally, honestly — the fast-and-fits 5B, the heavy two-expert 14B, the VRAM wall, and the decode that wedges. Here are the real numbers.

Everyone’s arguing about Wan 2.2. So we ran it locally, honestly — the fast-and-fits 5B, the heavy two-expert 14B, the VRAM wall, and the decode that wedges. Here are the real numbers.

VRAM first, everything else second: what GPU you actually need for local AI in 2026 — the memory-crisis market, the value picks, AI appliances like DGX Spark, four real builds by budget, and when renting beats buying.

Every video on this channel — the voice, the brain, the 3D avatar, the daily uploads — runs on one prebuilt gaming PC. Here’s the exact spec, what actually matters for local AI, and what we’d change.

MuseTalk generates lip-synced video faster than real time on a 5090 — but getting it to BUILD on Blackwell is dependency hell. Here’s the exact recipe that works.