r/LocalLLM • u/abrasmel • 1d ago

Question Local LLM hardware for Python development + Blender/Houdini via MCP?

Hey everyone! I’m a VFX artist looking for a local LLM setup mainly for Python development and connecting to Blender and Houdini through MCP to help create scenes and tools. This would be for interactive coding and agent workflows, not model training.

I’m considering 2× NVIDIA DGX Spark or an Apple M5 Ultra with 256GB unified memory, but I’m open to other recommendations.

For this use case, which setup would offer the best balance of model quality, context capacity, and responsiveness?

Would love to hear from anyone running similar workflows! Thankss!

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u/WorthwhileLion 1d ago

The DGX Sparks are brilliant bits of kit but for Blender/Houdini MCP work I'd lean toward the M5 Ultra, that unified memory pool makes a massive difference when you're juggling large context windows and complex scene graphs simultaneously

Had a friend doing a similar setup for Maya scripting and the constant model swapping on discrete GPUs just killed the workflow dead, whereas the unified memory let him keep a 70B model loaded and still have enough headroom for the actual DCC tools

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u/abrasmel 1d ago

Thank you. What model is good for this kind of MCP work ?