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M1 Max 64GB vs M4 Max 48GB

For running local LLMs · 4 reports across 2 models

Side A
M1 Max 64GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
64GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M4 Max 48GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
48GB
Memory
Unified

Highest reported generation speed by model family

These maxima come from different community setups. Model size, quantization, GPU count, offloading and concurrency may differ. They do not establish which GPU is faster for the same workload. Check the comparison conditions →

ModelM1 Max 64GBM4 Max 48GB
Qwen3.8up to 2400B21.0n=3
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B8.0n=1

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