Need advice on hardware purchasing decision: RTX 5090 vs. M5 Max 128GB for agentic software development
tl;dr – For software development, Qwen3.6 27B, 5090 gives you ~3x speed over M5 Max, letting you plow through code, while M5 Max gives you ~4x memory, letting you use higher quantization and bigger context. Which would you choose and why? I've bee…