KRANKY ai

Mini PCs. Local LLMs. Real numbers.

Independent benchmarks for mini PCs running local AI, with tokens-per-watt nobody else publishes.

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Top mini PCs for llama3.1:8b by tok/s/W

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  1. #1 Aoostar GEM12
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Every number on kranky.ai is produced by hwbench, an open-source benchmark tool. Every run is git-committed with its config, so any result can be audited. Read the methodology →