Comparisons Guides
4 InsiderLLM guides in Comparisons — practical, tested walkthroughs for running AI locally, sorted by most recently updated.
- Qwen 3.8 27B vs 3.6 on RTX 3090: Speed and Quality Tested Firsthand benchmarks of Qwen 3.8-27B against 3.6-27B on one RTX 3090: generation within a percent, VRAM +254 MiB, and HumanEval pass@1 a statistical tie.
- Ornith 1.5 35B vs Qwen 3.6 on RTX 3090: Speed Tested Firsthand A-B-B-A bench of Ornith 1.5-35B-A3B against Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B on one RTX 3090. Generation, prefill, VRAM, and the noise floor under all three.
- Wicked Fast Gemma 4 vs Qwen 3.6 on RTX 3090: 3.10x Tested Same RTX 3090, same llama.cpp build, same bench. Gemma 4 26B-A4B Q4_K_XL: 128 tok/s mean. Qwen 3.6-27B Q4_K_M: 41 tok/s. 3.10x faster, firsthand.
- Pi AI vs Local AI: Cloud Companion or Private Assistant? Pi.ai is warm, free, and cloud-only. Local AI is private, flexible, and yours. What Pi does well, where it falls short, and when running your own model is the better call.