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.
Qwen3.5 9B · 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 (98)
Usable, with noticeable compromises for this workload.
MacBook Pro M1 Max 32 GB
32 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 12 GB
MacBook Pro M1 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 42 GB
MacBook Pro M2 Max 32 GB
32 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 12 GB
MacBook Pro M2 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 42 GB
MacBook Pro M2 Max 96 GB
96 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 25–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 74 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 36 GB
36 GB unified memory · 300 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 20–30 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈30 s
- Headroom
- 16 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 96 GB
96 GB unified memory · 300 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 20–30 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈30 s
- Headroom
- 74 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 48 GB
48 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 27 GB
MacBook Pro M3 Max 64 GB
64 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s
- Quant / runtime
- Q6 · LM Studio
- Generation
- 30–35 tok/s
- Per step
- ≈25 s
- Headroom
- 42 GB
Can run, but below your target (26)
The model loads, but the experience falls short for this workload.
Cannot run (4)
Not enough usable memory, or no compatible runtime.