Reddit r/LocalLLaMAAugust 22, 2026
Does anyone actually respect benchmarks?
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I get why they exist and in almost mostly any other hardware field we can see clearly the difference and what it respects throughout, but with ai, its so inconsistent and unpredictable, besides the very basic needle tests, which at this point what really fails it? I just dont get the hype around the benchmarks, ive been testing models that fit between 1-48gb vram for years now, everytime i go off a benchmark im usually disappointed, testing on my own workloads and env are the only sound testing