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
2 · Use case
Agentic coding
Chat & writing
Coding
Documents & research
Multimodal
Automation & serving
3 · Tool & runtime
Tool: OpenCode
4 · Workload
Project size, agent behaviour, other apps
5 · Desired experience
6 · Budget & vendors (optional)
Prices are approximate launch prices for the whole system.
Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 · Agentic coding / medium repository
Target: comfortable · 32 machines meet it
Meets your comfortable target (32)
Cheapest first.
Mac Studio M1 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–40 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
Mac Studio M2 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–45 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
Desktop PC · 2× GeForce RTX 3090 (48 GB) · 128 GB RAM
48 GB VRAM (936 GB/s) + 128 GB RAM
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · Ollama
- Generation
- 60–100 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈5 s
- Headroom
- 13 GB
Mac Studio M4 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 546 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 40–55 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈10 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
Mac Studio M5 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 40–65 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈8 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
MacBook Pro M1 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–40 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
Mac Studio M2 Max 96 GB
96 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–45 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 49 GB
MacBook Pro M2 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–45 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q8 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–45 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 17 GB
Meets the acceptable target (35)
Usable, with noticeable compromises for this workload.
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
MacBook Pro M3 Max 36 GB
36 GB unified memory · 300 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q4 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 35–50 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 5.7 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 96 GB
96 GB unified memory · 300 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–40 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 56 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 48 GB
48 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 40–50 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈10 s
- Headroom
- 9.3 GB
MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48 GB
48 GB unified memory · 273 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈20 s
- Headroom
- 9.3 GB
MacBook Pro M4 Max 36 GB
36 GB unified memory · 410 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q4 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 45–60 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈10 s
- Headroom
- 5.7 GB
MacBook Pro M4 Max 48 GB
48 GB unified memory · 546 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 50–65 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈10 s
- Headroom
- 9.3 GB
MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB
48 GB unified memory · 307 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–40 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 9.3 GB
MacBook Pro M5 Pro 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 307 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–40 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈15 s
- Headroom
- 24 GB
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.