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stay with rx 7900xt or upgrade to AI pro r9700?

A store near me has an AI Pro R9700 for about $1,400. I’m pretty new to local LLMs and still figuring everything out, but I’m loving it so far. Even just running inference and messing with settings in LM Studio has been really fun. My biggest problem right now is VRAM. I’m running Qwen 3.8 27B at Q…

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  1. 2026-10-03 18:18 · r/LocalLLM
    stay with rx 7900xt or upgrade to AI pro r9700?

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