Our catalog tracks 12 reasoning LLMs (3.8B–1058.1 parameters). For each, the table shows the cheapest retail GPU that fully fits it at Q4 / 8K context and the fastest retail GPU, with decode tok/s. Fit means weights + KV cache + 1 GB runtime overhead within 95% of VRAM — not weights alone. 3 of them exceed every retail GPU we track and are marked accordingly. Methodology.
| # | Model | Params | Q4/8K needs (GB) | Best value GPU (fits) | Fastest retail GPU | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phi-4-mini-reasoning | 3.8B | 3.85 | Arc B570 10GB ≈63.6 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈300.1 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 2 | Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 | 4.0B | 4.0 | Arc B570 10GB ≈60.5 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈285.1 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 3 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B | 7.6B | 6.7 | Arc B570 10GB ≈31.8 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈150.0 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 4 | DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B | 8.2B | 7.15 | Arc B570 10GB ≈29.5 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈139.1 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 5 | Phi-4-reasoning | 14.7B | 12.03 | RX 7600 XT 16GB ≈12.5 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈77.6 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 6 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B | 14.8B | 12.1 | RX 7600 XT 16GB ≈12.4 tok/s est. | RTX 4090 24GB ≈92.5 tok/s measured | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 7 | Magistral-Small-2509 | 24.0B | 19.0 | RX 7900 XT 20GB ≈21.2 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈47.5 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 8 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | 32.8B | 25.6 | Mac mini M4 32GB ≈2.3 tok/s est. | RTX 5090 32GB ≈34.8 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 9 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B | 70.6B | 53.95 | Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB ≈2.5 tok/s est. | Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB ≈7.4 tok/s est. | Search Amazon (affiliate) |
| 10 | MiniMax-M1 | 456.1B MoE 45.9B act. | 261.04 | No retail GPU fits | — | — |
| 11 | DeepSeek-R1 | 684.5B MoE 37B act. | 384.88 | No retail GPU fits | — | — |
| 12 | Kimi-K2-Thinking | 1058.1B MoE 32B act. | 589.36 | No retail GPU fits | — | — |