What hardware do I need?

Hardware that delivers the experience you want — not just loads the model

Pick the model and describe the workload. We rate every machine in the database for that exact workload and group them by whether they meet your target.

1 · Model

Quantization

2 · Use case

Agentic coding

Chat & writing

Coding

Documents & research

Multimodal

Automation & serving

3 · Tool & runtime

Tool: OpenCode

Runtime

4 · Workload

Context

Project size, agent behaviour, other apps

Coding style

Repository size

Repository size is a signal for retrieval and prompt-processing load — the whole repo never goes into the context.

How does the agent behave?

What else do you normally run while coding?

This memory is subtracted before the model is considered. Very important on 16–32 GB machines.

5 · Desired experience

6 · Budget & vendors (optional)

Prices are approximate launch prices for the whole system.

USD max

AppleNVIDIAAMDIntel

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct · Agentic coding / medium repository

Target: comfortable · 66 machines meet it

Meets your comfortable target (66)

Cheapest first.

Comfortable

Desktop PC · Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB · 32 GB RAM

24 GB VRAM (456 GB/s) + 32 GB RAM

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 30–55 tok/s
Per step: ≈20 s
Headroom: 1.7 GB

$1,500Estimated

Comfortable

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB

64 GB unified memory · 256 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · Lemonade
Generation: 30–40 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 22 GB

$1,600Calibrated

Comfortable

Desktop PC · Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB · 64 GB RAM

24 GB VRAM (456 GB/s) + 64 GB RAM

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 30–55 tok/s
Per step: ≈20 s
Headroom: 1.7 GB

$1,628Estimated

Comfortable

Desktop PC · GeForce RTX 3090 · 32 GB RAM

24 GB VRAM (936 GB/s) + 32 GB RAM

Quant / runtime: Q4 · Ollama
Generation: 95–130 tok/s
Per step: ≈5 s
Headroom: 1.8 GB

$1,700Calibrated

Comfortable

Mac mini M4 Pro 48 GB

48 GB unified memory · 273 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q5 · LM Studio
Generation: 30–40 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 13 GB

$1,799Calibrated

Comfortable

Desktop PC · Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 32 GB RAM

24 GB VRAM (960 GB/s) + 32 GB RAM

Quant / runtime: Q4 · Lemonade
Generation: 110–150 tok/s
Per step: ≈5 s
Headroom: 1.8 GB

$1,800Calibrated

Comfortable

Desktop PC · GeForce RTX 3090 · 64 GB RAM

24 GB VRAM (936 GB/s) + 64 GB RAM

Quant / runtime: Q4 · Ollama
Generation: 95–130 tok/s
Per step: ≈5 s
Headroom: 1.8 GB

$1,828Calibrated

Comfortable

Desktop PC · Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 64 GB RAM

24 GB VRAM (960 GB/s) + 64 GB RAM

Quant / runtime: Q4 · Lemonade
Generation: 110–150 tok/s
Per step: ≈5 s
Headroom: 1.8 GB

$1,928Calibrated

Comfortable

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 256 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · Lemonade
Generation: 30–40 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 86 GB

$2,000Calibrated

Meets the acceptable target (1)

Usable, with noticeable compromises for this workload.

Acceptable

MacBook Pro M3 Pro 36 GB

36 GB unified memory · 150 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–25 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 5.7 GB

$2,399Calibrated

Can run, but below your target (29)

The model loads, but the experience falls short for this workload.

Cannot run (32)

Not enough usable memory, or no compatible runtime.