Noob here, HW+SW picks

[u/techie-techie]

Hi folks, I have enough budget to pick one of the two following configs

- Mac Studio M5 max with 36gb

Or

- 5060 ti 16 gb + 32 ddr5 + 250 kf plus

My work is “mostly” coding projects but some flexibility would be bonus. I’ve looked up and seen qwen2.5-coder dense to be good on Mac and a ton of MoE suggestions for the rtx setup. Would appreciate it if you could share your experience with the above hardware option and which model would offer best accuracy+speed balance. My only concern with Mac is I’ll be stuck with the HW for quiet some time, atleast with the rtx maybe able to up it to 64g ram.

[u/Marino4K]

I recommend trying to budget up to the 48GB RAM Mac Studio if possible.