Buying a GPU in 2026 means buying a software ecosystem, not a graphics card

XDA developers | May 31, 2026, 7:01 a.m. | Original
The best performance does not equal the best experience
I ditched LM Studio for an open-source alternative — and my local model is doing things it couldn't before I ran local LLMs on Intel's cheapest iGPU, and the results were surprisingly decent