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Rig report

MacBook Pro M5 Max (128GB)

128.0 GB memory · 614 GB/s · 57 of 64 tracked models fit

Best model it can run

Qwen3.8 Flash Next (MoE)Tight / slow

Q2_K · 80.9 GB · 79–118 tok/s · capability 90/100

Fastest that fits: LFM2.5 1.2B at 86–129 tok/s

Also runs

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Compare against

vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Max (128GB) →vs NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10, 128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) →vs MacBook Pro M5 Max (36GB) →vs MacBook Pro M5 Pro (64GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Max (48GB) →all comparisons →

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