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Open-Weight LLM Showdown: Every Edition

Index of every Open-Weight LLM Showdown edition, the recurring look at which open-weight models actually run on consumer hardware.

The Open-Weight LLM Showdown is a recurring look at which open-weight models actually run on consumer hardware, and how the field moved between editions.

This index lists all 16, oldest first. The series ran from 22 February 2026 to 21 May 2026.

Every edition

PublishedEdition
22 February 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown: Qwen3, Llama 4, GLM-5, and Gemma 3 on Real Hardware
28 February 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown: What Actually Runs on Your GPU in 2026
4 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown: What Actually Runs on Your GPU (March 2026)
16 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown: RTX 5090 Finally Delivers, But You Can’t Buy One
21 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown: GTC Pivots to Inference, DeepSeek V4 Still MIA
21 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown: Mistral Small 4 Arrives, DeepSeek V4 Finally Lands
24 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 5: Qwen 3.5 Dominates, Nemotron 3 Super Redefines Efficiency
27 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 6: MiMo-V2-Flash Brings 309B Parameters to Consumer GPUs
30 March 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 7: Mistral Small 4 Impresses but Stays Out of Reach
4 April 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 8: Gemma 4 Rewrites the Rules, Then Trips Over Its Own Feet
7 April 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 9: Six Labs, One License, and the Speed War That Decides Everything
13 April 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 10: NVIDIA Enters the Ring, Meta Walks Out
19 April 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 11: Qwen 3.6 Fires Back, and the 3B Active War Is Real
24 April 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 12: Alibaba’s Dense 27B Model Just Made MoE Optional
28 April 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 13: DeepSeek V4 Crashes the Party, Gemma 4 Proves Itself, and ICLR Drops Hints
21 May 2026Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 16: Kimi K2.6 Storms the Rankings, Qwen 3.6 Holds the Line, and Consumer GPUs Hit a Ceiling

Why this page exists

The editions above were published as separate articles with near-identical titles. They compete with each other for the same search query and none of them is an obvious entry point. This page is that entry point. It is navigation only: it adds no analysis of its own, and each edition stands as the record of what was published on its date.