Can Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB run Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B)?
64 GB unified · 256 GB/s memory bandwidth · Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B) has 78.1B parameters (3.46B active per token).
Short answer
Yes, excellent for chat; borderline for agentic coding.
Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (45 GB of weights) on Lemonade. Generation: 65–90 tok/s, leaving about 6.8 GB free for your other apps.
How it rates for each workload
Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.
| Workload | Verdict | Quant | Generation | First reply | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwith Open WebUI | Excellent | Q4_K_M | 65–90 tok/s | ≈1 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Comfortable | Q4_K_M | 65–90 tok/s | ≈6 s | 16K | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Acceptable | Q4_K_M | 60–80 tok/s | ≈15 s | 32K | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Borderline | Q4_K_M | 55–75 tok/s | ≈25 s | 32K | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Acceptable | Q4_K_M | 45–60 tok/s | ≈65 s | 64K | Details |
Speeds are estimates calibrated against measured benchmarks on similar hardware. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate
Other models for Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B55–75 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B45–60 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 35B-A3B55–75 tok/sExcellent
- LFM2.5 24B-A2B110–150 tok/sExcellent
- gpt-oss-20b70–90 tok/sExcellent
- GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B)55–75 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B)
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Desktop PC · Ryzen 9 9950X (no GPU) · 64 GB DDR5$1,400 · 13–20 tok/sComfortable
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 128 GB$2,000 · 40–55 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M4 Pro 64 GB$2,199 · 60–80 tok/sExcellent
- Mac Studio M1 Max 64 GB$2,399 · 80–110 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M5 Pro 64 GB$2,499 · 55–90 tok/sExcellent
- Mac Studio M2 Max 64 GB$2,599 · 85–110 tok/sExcellent
Same chip, other memory: 128 GB
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.