Llmspeed benchmarks local LLM speed
The gist
Open-source tool llmspeed launched this week to estimate local LLM speed by hardware and model.
It lets buyers judge speed before spending, though some figures are derived, not measured.
How it unfolded
- Oct 12, 2026Every Local AI publishes an RTX A5500 hardware page covering VRAM, benchmarks and price, stating the 768 GB/s figure is the best single predictor of chat speed on this card, typically within ~15%.
- Oct 14, 2026The aidatatools/ollama-benchmark GitHub repository, an LLM benchmark for throughput via Ollama, is listed with its latest commit date.
- Oct 17, 2026llmspeed launches as a web application to help people gauge local large language model speed before buying hardware, covered by LavX News and daily.dev.