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Dual AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 or dual NVIDIA or RTX 3090.

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I’m building a dual GPU box. Originally the goal was 30b at FP8 or 70b at Q4. I planned to run two R9700’s, but I found a pair of NIB RTX 3090’s near me for $1600 each. Discount if I buy both. RTX 40/50 series are off the table. I would love an RTX PRO 6000, but that is also off the table. I curren…

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Timeline · 4 reports

  1. 2026-09-15 18:07 · r/LocalLLM
    Radeon AI Pro R9700 w/ Qwen3.8-27B Q8 hitting 90.8toks
  2. 2026-09-15 07:09 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Radeon AI PRO R9700 - Which one to choose?
  3. 2026-09-15 04:29 · r/LocalLLM
    Dual AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 or dual NVIDIA or RTX 3090.
  4. 2026-09-15 04:24 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Dual AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 or dual NVIDIA or RTX 3090.

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