Qwen 3.8 (and maybe soon 4) series models are probably the best right now for local AI. Specifically, for lower end hardware like 8gb GPUs you might find a lot of use in a Qwen 3.8 variant like Underdog Saluki 27B.
I'm aware operations can technically finish at different rates throughout all of a GPU's cores, but I am not exactly sure that GPU firmware would change the outcome of a calculation (unless there's something specifically in the firmware for it)
I agree that it is mostly entirely pointless; but I don't think the goal was to make something useful, rather to prove that "HDAE" can in-fact produce a kernel capable of running some unmodified Linux applications