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Rig report

MacBook Pro M4 Max (128GB)

128.0 GB memory · 546 GB/s · 41 of 48 tracked models fit

Best model it can run

Gemma 4 31BRuns great

Q6_K · 25.2 GB · 13–19 tok/s · capability 84/100

Fastest that fits: LFM2.5 1.2B at 81–122 tok/s

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Compare against

vs NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10, 128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) →vs MacBook Pro M5 Max (128GB) →vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) →vs MacBook Pro M5 Max (36GB) →vs MacBook Pro M5 Pro (64GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Max (48GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (128GB) →all comparisons →

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Estimates from device specs and model architectures, refined by community benchmarks. See the methodology.