M1 8GB vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB

For running local LLMs · 3 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 8GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

AMD Strix Halo 128GB

Vendor: amd
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M1 8GB	AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B	—	21.1n=2
Gemma 4up to 31B	17.5n=1	—

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