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M1 Ultra 128GB vs M5 Max 64GB

For running local LLMs · 6 reports across 5 models

Side A
M1 Ultra 128GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
128GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M5 Max 64GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
64GB
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 Ultra 128GBM5 Max 64GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B63.0n=2
DeepSeek V4up to 284B16.0n=1
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B30.0n=1
Gemma 4up to 31B97.0n=1
Qwen3.8up to 2400B31.2n=1

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