128 GB · 256 GB/s

What can the Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128 GB) run?

A small PC with 128 GB shared memory. Great for big mixture-of-experts models.

Best models for each task

Our top three for this machine. Chat and image tasks assume an 8K-token conversation; coding, documents and agents assume 32K.

Chat & writing24 of 25 run

  1. Qwen3.8 Flash Next 125B-A6B (+51B n-gram emb.)Runs wellUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 84.1 GB at 8K · 30–60tok/sFast
  2. Qwen3.8 27BRuns greatQ4_K_M · needs 19.9 GB at 8K · 8.5–14tok/sReadable
  3. Gemma 4 26B-A4BRuns greatQ8_0 · needs 29.3 GB at 8K · 20–45tok/sSmooth

Coding25 of 26 run

  1. Qwen3.8 Flash Next 125B-A6B (+51B n-gram emb.)Runs wellUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 84.7 GB at 32K · 25–50tok/sSmooth
  2. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Fits with a tweakUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 105 GB at 32K · 20–40tok/sSmooth
  3. Qwen3.8 27BRuns greatUD-IQ3_S · needs 16.1 GB at 32K · 11–17tok/sReadable

Long documents19 of 20 run

  1. Qwen3.8 Flash Next 125B-A6B (+51B n-gram emb.)Runs wellUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 84.7 GB at 32K · 25–50tok/sSmooth
  2. Qwen3.8 27BRuns greatUD-IQ3_S · needs 16.1 GB at 32K · 11–17tok/sReadable
  3. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BRuns greatQ8_0 · needs 40.4 GB at 32K · 25–45tok/sSmooth

Agents & tools25 of 26 run

  1. Qwen3.8 Flash Next 125B-A6B (+51B n-gram emb.)Runs wellUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 84.7 GB at 32K · 25–50tok/sSmooth
  2. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731Fits with a tweakUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 105 GB at 32K · 20–40tok/sSmooth
  3. Qwen3.8 27BRuns greatUD-IQ3_S · needs 16.1 GB at 32K · 11–17tok/sReadable

Images in12 of 13 run

  1. Qwen3.8 Flash Next 125B-A6B (+51B n-gram emb.)Runs wellUD-IQ3_XXS · needs 84.1 GB at 8K · 30–60tok/sFast
  2. Qwen3.8 27BRuns greatQ4_K_M · needs 19.9 GB at 8K · 8.5–14tok/sReadable
  3. Qwen3.6 35B-A3BRuns greatQ8_0 · needs 39.9 GB at 8K · 25–55tok/sFast

Make images6 of 6 run

  1. Stable Diffusion XL Base 1.0Runs greatFP16 · needs 7.9 GB
  2. FLUX.2 [klein] 4BRuns greatBF16 · needs 14.0 GB
  3. Z-Image-TurboRuns greatBF16 · needs 17.0 GB

Speak text7 of 7 run

  1. Qwen3-TTS 1.7BRuns greatBF16 · needs 5.5 GB
  2. Kokoro-82MRuns greatFP32 · needs 1.4 GB
  3. Chatterbox Multilingual V3Runs greatFull · needs 4.2 GB

Transcribe7 of 7 run

  1. Voxtral Mini 4B RealtimeRuns greatBF16 · needs 17.0 GB
  2. Whisper large-v3-turbo (via faster-whisper)Runs greatFP16 · needs 2.6 GB
  3. Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6BRuns greatFP32 · needs 3.5 GB

Biggest model it runs well

Qwen3.8 Flash Next 125B-A6B (+51B n-gram emb.) (UD-IQ3_XXS, 82.0 GB file) at about 30–60tok/sFast.

Should you buy it?

Buy it if

You want 100B-class MoE models in a small PC for less than a Mac Studio.

Skip it if

You want big dense models at a good speed — 256 GB/s is not enough for that.

Watch out for

  • Use the Vulkan version of llama.cpp or LM Studio.
  • Dense 70B models fit but run slowly.

Measured on this hardware

Real runs from public sources, not estimates. All measurements.

ModelVersionPromptSpeedSource
Qwen3 30B-A3B-Instruct-2507UD-Q4_K_XL51278 tok/ssource 2025-08
gpt-oss 120BMXFP451233.7 tok/ssource 2025-08
Qwen3 32BQ8_05126.4 tok/ssource 2025-08