[qayxc]

> To be clear, we are not discussing small toy models but to be fair I also don't use consumer cards.

> if you don't see the performance uplift everyone else sees there is something wrong with your setup and I don't have the time to debug it.

Read these two statements and think about what might be the issue. I only run what you call "toy models" (good enough for my purposes), so of course your experience is fundamentally different from mine. Spending 5 figures on hardware just to run models locally is usually a bad investment. Repurposing old hardware OTOH is just fine to play with local models and optimise them for specific applications and workflows.