Rig report
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (96GB)
96.0 GB memory · 1228 GB/s · 55 of 64 tracked models fit
Best model it can run
Qwen3.8 27BRuns great
FP16 · 54.7 GB · 14–21 tok/s · capability 85/100
Fastest that fits: Qwen3 Coder Next 80B-A3B (MoE) at 116–174 tok/s
Compare against
vs MacBook Pro / Mac Studio M5 Max (128GB) →vs MacBook Pro / Mac Studio M4 Max (128GB) →vs NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10, 128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48GB) →vs MacBook Pro / Mac Studio M4 Max (48GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) →all comparisons →
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Estimates from device specs and model architectures, refined by community benchmarks. See the methodology.