Prime Big Deal Days Local AI Hardware, Organised by Memory
Live prices updated · 56 in-stock products · tracking date unavailable · prices in this category are re-checked about once a day on a rolling cycle - the time above is our newest price, not every row's
Running now through October 7. Next deal drop: 12:01 a.m. PT.
What you can run locally is bounded by memory, so this page is organised by it: graphics cards by the VRAM their listing states, then high-capacity system RAM, Gen5 NVMe and unified-memory boxes. 56 graphics cards are in stock. We started tracking them on 6 October 2026, so none has a price history yet and every one reads TRACKING.
We measure every price against that item's OWN recorded history, not against a list price - list prices get raised before a sale, which is documented and cited on this site's event pages. A verdict badge means: AT/NEAR LOW is close to the lowest price we recorded for that item over the days we tracked it in the last 30 - each badge prints that number of days - in a record where its price has actually moved (a price that has not moved is not a low, and reads TYPICAL); TYPICAL is ordinary for it; ELEVATED is above where it usually sits; NEW means we have not tracked it long enough to say. No percentage-off-list figure appears anywhere on this site as a measure of whether a price is actually good.
The evidence for why we do it this way is our own: the June 2026 Prime Day retrospective measured whether the last comparable event moved prices, category by category, before any of these pages were written.
Live local ai hardware: gpus, ram & nvme picks, verdict-badged
Today's verdict distribution: 0 of 56 in-stock items are at or near their own recorded low today; 0 are typical for themselves; 0 are elevated above their own usual price, and 56 have too short a record to judge yet - every row, so no verdict is possible. Each count compares an item with its own recorded price; no past price is printed for any listing.
VRAM is each card's listing title (read 2026-10-06). We do not say which models a card can run - that needs a sourced weight size at a stated quantisation for each model, and we hold none. Compare the VRAM with the size published for the model you want.
Why this page is about memory, not speed
For running a model on your own machine, the first question is whether it fits: the model's weights have to sit in memory - the graphics card's VRAM, or system RAM on machines that share one pool. Speed matters after that. So every card here is listed with the VRAM its own Amazon title states, grouped into tiers, and nothing is ranked by gaming benchmarks.
We do not publish which models a card can run. A claim like "runs a 70B model" depends on the model's weight size at a particular quantisation, plus room for context, and we hold no sourced figure for those. What we can state is the VRAM; the reader can compare it with the size published for the model they actually want to run.
VRAM here is the listing's own statement, read from its title on 6 October 2026. A spec in a listing is a seller's claim; check the card maker's page before you rely on it, especially where the same chip ships in more than one memory configuration.
System RAM, NVMe and unified memory
If a model will not fit in VRAM, the alternative is system memory: 96GB and 128GB DDR5 kits are listed below from our consumer RAM tracking, which has its own history and verdict badges. Kit capacity is the total of the kit as its listing states it.
Weights are loaded from disk, so a fast NVMe drive shortens the wait each time a model loads. The Gen5 drives below come from our gaming SSD tracking, with each drive's PCIe generation as recorded.
Unified-memory mini PCs - the ones whose own titles name AMD's Ryzen AI Max - share one large memory pool between processor and graphics, which is why they are discussed for local AI. They are listed from our mini PC tracking, with the memory each title states.
What June's Prime Day measured for this category
Not measurable: our tracking for this category began after the event, after June's Prime Day ran 2026-06-23 to 2026-06-26. We do not borrow another category's result to fill the gap. The coverage table in the June retrospective lists what could be measured and why the rest could not.
The trap: buying on a model claim
The easiest mistake this week is buying a card because a listing or a headline says it "runs" a particular model. Whether a model fits depends on its size at the quantisation you will actually use, not on the card's marketing.
Start from the memory you need for the model you intend to run, find the tier that clears it with room to spare, and only then compare prices within the tier.
None of these graphics card prices can be called low yet. We started tracking every card here on 6 October 2026, so there is no price history to judge them against. If you need one this week, choose on the VRAM tier you need and buy from a seller you trust; if you do not, the verdicts will mean something once the history exists.
The standing local ai hardware: gpus, ram & nvme pages
- Best NVMe for AI - Storage for model weights and datasets, ranked by cost per terabyte.
- Consumer RAM - Desktop and laptop kits, with verdict badges.
- Gen4 and Gen5 SSDs - Every fast NVMe drive we track, by generation.
- Mini PCs - Including the unified-memory boxes, by storage and network facts.
Frequently asked questions
Which models can these cards run?
We do not say. Whether a model fits depends on its weight size at a given quantisation, plus memory for context, and we hold no sourced figure for those. We list the VRAM each card's listing states so you can compare it with the size published for the model you want.
Where does the VRAM figure come from?
From each listing's Amazon title, read through Amazon's product API on 6 October 2026, and only where the title states it as a figure with a memory type (for example 16GB GDDR7). A card whose title did not state it was not listed.
Why does every card read TRACKING?
We started tracking all 56 cards on 6 October 2026. A verdict compares a price with the item's own recorded history, and none has one yet.
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