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Hardware guide · Laguna

LA What hardware do you need to run Laguna S 2.1?

Laguna S 2.1 needs about 92.8 GB to run at Q4_K_M, so the lightest hardware that runs it is Apple M4 Max (128GB). 4 of 40 devices tested can run it.

Needs (Q4_K_M)
~92.8 GB
Devices that run it
4
Too small
36
Lightest that runs it
~96 GB
Recommended Q4_K_M

Runs at Q4_K_M using ~92.8 GB of ~192 GB usable. You have room for Q8_0 for higher quality.

What kind of hardware runs Laguna S 2.1

Of the 4 devices that run it, here is the split by hardware class.

1 discrete GPU 3 Macs

Hardware that runs Laguna S 2.1

Ranked by usable memory, lightest first. Prices are approximate street prices for the device itself (a GPU is the card alone; a Mac is the whole machine). Tok/s is a bandwidth estimate; see methodology.

See the full Laguna S 2.1 memory breakdown, or compare it against other models.

Sources

Memory at Q4_K_M (92.8 GB = 89.44 GB weights + KV cache + overhead), validated 2026-08-03. See methodology.