Workstations for AI

Deskside machines with one to four professional GPUs, powerful enough to train and fine-tune without a datacenter.

171 products from 19 vendors, from $1,000 to $131,000 (median $5,617). Most common accelerators: GB10, RTX 5080, RTX PRO 6000, RTX 2000, RTX 5070.

What to compare

A workstation is usually bought for local iteration, so per-card VRAM matters more than raw throughput — 48GB on one card avoids the sharding that two 24GB cards force. Watch power and cooling: four full-height cards need a chassis and a circuit that can carry them.

Who buys these

Researchers and developers who want a machine under their desk rather than a queue on a shared cluster.