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Rig report

MacBook Pro M5 Max (36GB)

36.0 GB memory · 460 GB/s · 47 of 64 tracked models fit

Best model it can run

Qwen3.8 27BRuns great

Q5_K_M · 20.9 GB · 13–20 tok/s · capability 85/100

Fastest that fits: Kimi Linear 48B-A3B (MoE) at 107–160 tok/s

Also runs

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Compare against

vs MacBook Pro M5 Pro (64GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Max (48GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Max (128GB) →vs NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10, 128GB) →vs MacBook Pro M4 Pro (48GB) →all comparisons →

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