DGX Spark vs M5 Max 128GB

For running local LLMs · 6 reports across 3 models

Side A

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	DGX Spark	M5 Max 128GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	—	7.5n=3
Qwen3.6up to 35B	—	5.5n=2
GLM-5.1	—n=1	—

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