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

Muse Glimmer (30B) · Agentic coding / medium repository

Target: comfortable · 0 machines meet it

Meets your comfortable target (0)

Cheapest first.

No machine in the database meets this target. Try a smaller model, shorter context or a lighter workload.

Meets the acceptable target (48)

Usable, with noticeable compromises for this workload.

Acceptable

MacBook Pro M5 Max 48 GB

48 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–30 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 19 GB

$3,999Estimated

Acceptable

MacBook Pro M5 Max 64 GB

64 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–30 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 34 GB

$4,399Estimated

Acceptable

MacBook Pro M5 Max 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–30 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 98 GB

$5,599Estimated

Acceptable

Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96 GB

96 GB unified memory · 819 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 19–25 tok/s
Per step: ≈35 s
Headroom: 66 GB

$5,499Calibrated

Acceptable

Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB

256 GB unified memory · 819 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 19–25 tok/s
Per step: ≈35 s
Headroom: 226 GB

$6,299Calibrated

Acceptable

Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512 GB

512 GB unified memory · 819 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 19–25 tok/s
Per step: ≈35 s
Headroom: 482 GB

$7,099Calibrated

Acceptable

Mac Studio M5 Max 48 GB

48 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–30 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 19 GB

$2,499Estimated

Acceptable

Mac Studio M5 Max 64 GB

64 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–30 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 34 GB

$2,899Estimated

Acceptable

Mac Studio M5 Max 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 18–30 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 98 GB

$4,099Estimated

Can run, but below your target (48)

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

Cannot run (32)

Not enough usable memory, or no compatible runtime.