I Tested Every Best Local AI For GPU (8GB TO 24GB VRAM)

Access ChatLLM Here - https://chatllm.abacus.ai/kai Two 2-bit files of the same model, Qwen 3.8 27B, at the same size: one fixed 16 of 20 real bugs, the other fixed 7, and the worse one was the bigger file. That's why this isn't another tier list. On 8GB to 24GB of VRAM the model name matters less than which file you download and whether it fits in your GPU's memory. We go card by card. On 8GB, your system RAM is the real tier: a mixture-of-experts model like Qwen 3.6 35B A3B runs from RAM at 23 tokens a second on a 6GB RTX 2060 with 32GB of DDR4. On 12GB, ISTA's GSQ-RCO build beats a bigger