A hands-on benchmark of 13 local LLMs — Llama, Qwen3, DeepSeek-R1, Coder models and more — running on a home server with 64GB RAM and RTX 3060 12GB VRAM via llama.cpp. Includes GSM8K math, MMLU knowledge, and HumanEval coding scores, real token speeds, and an honest account of what doesn't fit.

We benchmarked 13 local LLMs on a machine with 64GB RAM and an RTX 3060 12GB using llama.cpp router mode — here's what scored well, what failed to load, and what surprised us.

Tag: Benchmark

Tag: Benchmark

13 Local LLMs, One RTX 3060: What Actually Runs (and What Doesn't)