MiniMax H3 GPU ladder
Every GPU runs MiniMax H3 with the same models on the same reference PC, ranked by generation time with the RTX 4090 at 100. Prices are 2026-10-03 references: new for cards in production, used for discontinued ones, market price for modded cards.
# GPU Score 864×480·5s 1344×768·5s Price pts/$100
1 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB 149 1 min 2 s 2 min 1 s $16,000 new 0.9 2 RTX 5090 32GB 139 1 min 6 s 2 min 11 s $4,899 new 2.8 3 RTX 5090 D 32GB 121 1 min 14 s 2 min 32 s — — 4 RTX 5090 D V2 24GB 108 1 min 23 s 2 min 52 s — — 5 RTX 4090 48GB (modded) 100 1 min 29 s 3 min 6 s — — 6 RTX 4090 24GB 100 1 min 29 s 3 min 6 s $2,800 used 3.6 7 RTX 4090 D 24GB 95 1 min 33 s 3 min 16 s — — 8 RTX 5080 16GB 83 1 min 45 s 3 min 46 s $1,599 new 5.2 9 RTX 5070 Ti 16GB 73 2 min 4 min 22 s $1,119 new 6.5 10 RTX 4080 Super 32GB (modded) 72 2 min 1 s 4 min 25 s — — 11 RTX 4080 Super 16GB 72 2 min 1 s 4 min 25 s $1,099 used 6.6 12 RTX 4080 32GB (modded) 69 2 min 6 s 4 min 37 s — — 13 RTX 4080 16GB 69 2 min 6 s 4 min 37 s $1,084 used 6.4 14 RTX 3090 24GB 67 2 min 9 s 4 min 43 s $1,199 used 5.6 15 RTX 3080 Ti 12GB 65 2 min 12 s 4 min 52 s $549 used 11.8 16 RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB 64 2 min 15 s 4 min 59 s $939 used 6.8 17 RTX 3080 12GB 62 2 min 18 s 5 min 7 s ≈$500 used 12.4 18 RTX 3080 20GB (modded) 57 2 min 32 s 5 min 39 s — — 19 RTX 3080 10GB 57 2 min 32 s 5 min 39 s $350 used 16.3 20 RTX 4070 Ti 12GB 54 2 min 39 s 5 min 58 s $579 used 9.3 21 RTX 5070 12GB 54 2 min 38 s 5 min 53 s $799 new 6.8 22 RTX 4070 Super 12GB 51 2 min 48 s 6 min 19 s $675 used 7.6 23 RTX 4070 12GB 47 3 min 3 s 6 min 56 s $590 used 8.0 24 RTX 3070 Ti 8GB 44 3 min 12 s 7 min 17 s $289 used 15.2 25 RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 40 3 min 32 s 8 min 6 s $779 new 5.1 26 RTX 5060 Ti 8GB 40 3 min 32 s 8 min 6 s $499 new 8.0 27 RTX 3070 16GB (modded) 37 3 min 48 s 8 min 43 s — — 28 RTX 3070 8GB 37 3 min 48 s 8 min 43 s $230 used 16.1 29 RTX 2080 Ti 22GB (modded) 36 3 min 58 s 9 min 7 s — — 30 RTX 2080 Ti 11GB 36 3 min 58 s 9 min 7 s $255 used 14.1 31 RTX 5060 8GB 36 3 min 54 s 8 min 58 s $379 new 9.5 32 RTX 3060 Ti 8GB 33 4 min 13 s 9 min 44 s $248 used 13.3 33 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 31 4 min 29 s 10 min 22 s ≈$790 used 3.9 34 RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 31 4 min 29 s 10 min 22 s $330 used 9.4 35 RTX 3060 12GB 27 5 min 13 s 12 min 9 s $280 used 9.6 36 RTX 4060 8GB 26 5 min 29 s 12 min 49 s $297 used 8.8 37 RTX 5050 8GB 26 5 min 25 s 12 min 40 s $309 new 8.4 38 RTX 2070 Super 8GB 25 5 min 31 s 12 min 53 s $189 used 13.2 39 RTX 2060 Super 8GB 23 6 min 9 s 14 min 24 s $175 used 13.1 40 RTX 3060 8GB 22 6 min 18 s 14 min 42 s — — 41 RTX 2060 12GB 20 6 min 54 s 16 min 11 s — — 42 RTX 3050 8GB 19 7 min 16 s 17 min 21 s $165 used 11.5 43 RTX 2060 6GB 19 7 min 8 s 16 min 55 s $135 used 14.1 44 GTX 1080 Ti 11GB 13 10 min 28 s 27 min 52 s $100 used 13.0 45 GTX 1080 8GB 10 13 min 27 s 37 min 39 s $90 used 11.1 46 GTX 1070 8GB 8 16 min 44 s 48 min 26 s $69 used 11.6 47 GTX 1060 6GB 6 22 min 21 s 1.1 h $55 used 10.9 — Apple M4 Max 128GB (unified memory) MLX path · not ranked — — ≈$3,499 new — — GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Won't run — — $65 used — ⚠ = not enough VRAM at this tier, weights get offloaded; ≈ = small sample, stale or converted price (hover for range and source). Click a row for the per-card page.
How it is measured
- Reference PC: 64GB DDR5-6000 dual channel, NVMe Gen4, --fast-disk on, Windows.
- Same models for all: pruned INT8 DiT + NVFP4 AWQ text encoder + LightX2V 4-step Turbo LoRA, no attention speed-up. Cards that cannot fit the weights offload them, and the slowdown shows in the score.
- Score = geometric mean of speed vs RTX 4090 at 864×480·5s and 1344×768·5s (official max), × 100. The baseline card takes about 1 min 29 s and 3 min 6 s.
- Speed model: H3 INT8 inference is partly bandwidth-bound and partly tensor-compute-bound, so each card’s effective speed is the geometric mean of memory bandwidth and dense INT8 tensor throughput (FP32 for Pascal, with a penalty for Turing’s weaker INT8 kernels). All bandwidth and compute figures come from NVIDIA specs. The calculator, per-card pages and workflow pages use exactly the same model. Its constants are fitted to all community benchmarks; error is about ±25%.
- Apple M4 Max runs through MLX and is not comparable with ComfyUI numbers, so it is listed but not ranked.
About the prices
GPU prices swung hard in 2026 with memory costs; these are snapshots, so check the live listing before buying. In-production cards use a typical non-premium new price, discontinued cards use used-market prices, and modded cards carry no warranty.
Price sources (38)
- Thunder Compute · 2026-10-01 · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 5090 32GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 4090 24GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 5080 16GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 4080 Super 16GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 4080 16GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 3090 24GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 3080 Ti 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
- Silicon Comps · 2026-09-27 · RTX 3080 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 3080 10GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 4070 Ti 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 5070 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 4070 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 3070 Ti 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 3070 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 2080 Ti 11GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 5060 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 3060 Ti 8GB
- Silicon Comps · 2026-10-02 · RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 3060 12GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 4060 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 5050 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-09-30 · RTX 2070 Super 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 2060 Super 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · RTX 3050 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · RTX 2060 6GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · GTX 1080 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · GTX 1070 8GB
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-01 · GTX 1060 6GB
- AppleInsider · 2026-08-26 · Apple M4 Max 128GB (unified memory)
- bestvaluegpu.com · 2026-10-02 · GTX 1050 Ti 4GB