Best home AI rig under €1,000

Only builds whose total cost is stated in the source (converted to € at the ECB rate) are listed. Reported costs are what the builder said they paid.

Builds with a source-reported total cost

Build	GPU(s)	VRAM GB	Reported cost	Measured tok/s
No build with a source-reported total cost at or under this budget yet.

Builds whose GPUs cost under €1,000 today (estimated)

These sources don't state a total cost. The figure is our estimated GPU cost only, from the lowest new retail price on billiger.de, approx. price as of 2026-10-16. CPU, RAM, PSU, case and storage are not included, and used GPUs often cost less. Each build page links the exact price source.

Build	GPU(s)	VRAM GB	Est. GPU cost	Measured tok/s
Ryzen 9 9950X + Radeon RX 7900 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	20	≈€869 GPU only, est.	Llama 3.2 3B: 131.2
RTX 3060 12GB: 2026 models (llamabench community)	RTX 3060	12	≈€429 GPU only, est.	Gemma 4 12B: 38.5 LFM2.5 24B-A2B: 125 Qwen3.8 27B: 5.2-6.7
Intel Core Ultra 265K + RTX 3060	RTX 3060	12	≈€429 GPU only, est.	gpt-oss 20B: 83.96 DeepSeek R1 Distill 14B: 29.77 Llama 3.2 3B: 122.85
Single RTX 5060 Ti 16GB	RTX 5060 Ti 16GB	16	≈€739 GPU only, est.	gpt-oss 20B: 111.51

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