TL;DR: Qwen3.5 31B at 15 t/s generation (500 t/s prefill) on 8GB VRAM as a daily driver, not a proof of concept. Context & motivation My crusade to democratise affordable AI is in full swing, whether that means patching inference engines[COL] or pushing cheap hardware to its limits[XLM]. I’m glad to see developments in software … Continue reading Beating ChatGPT 5 on a laptop PC →