Reviving Older Hardware: Benchmarking Local LLM Performance on a Ryzen 7 5700U Laptop

This research explores the viability of repurposing an older laptop for running a local Large Language Model (LLM) API server. The findings, though showing limitations, offer valuable insights into the performance capabilities of existing hardware and the potential for leveraging accessible resources for experimentation with Generative AI.

• •The study benchmarks a Ryzen 7 5700U laptop for local LLM Inference, specifically with the Qwen3 4B model.
• •The tested system achieved 4.7 tokens/sec, indicating limited practical use for an API server.
• •The research highlights how hardware from before the Generative AI boom performs, offering useful information for those with older devices.