alt Hacker NewsPerhaps OP was referring to a usable agentic system, for which $2500 sounds about right.
I've got a 3060 myself, which is nice to play around with the smaller models for free (minus electricity) and with 100% uptime, but I was not able to program anything with them yet that I didn't want to rewrite completely. A heavily quantized Qwen3.5-27B model is getting close though. Maybe in a few months.
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Strix Halo systems were ~$1500. They've gone up in price due to demand, but that is a perfectly usable "agentic system" (whatever that means). If 128GB VRAM and a fast GPU isn't good enough, I don't know what is.
I have also 4070 laptop version during heavy discount season, before 50series came. And upgrade to 96GB DDR5 when it's cheap... So I like LFM 450M + QWEN 9B Q4, they are good fit to 8GB VRAM.
I was actually thinking of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 which compiles the linux kernel in 62 seconds and is the first usable integrated graphics solution I've seen.
Benchmarks: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rpw17y/ryzen_a...