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2026-04-07 21:55
The $500 GPU That Outperforms Claude Sonnet on Coding Benchmarks
A $500 RTX 5070 running Qwen 3.5 Coder 32B now outperforms Claude Sonnet 4.6 on HumanEval. The margin is small (92.1% vs 89.4%), but the implications are massive. Local inference at 40 tokens per second. Zero API costs. Complete privacy.
This is not a theoretical benchmark. I tested this configuration across 164 coding problems, measuring not just accuracy but latency, cost, and practical usabili...