M2 16GB vs M5 Max 64GB

For running local LLMs · 5 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 16GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 64GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M2 16GB	M5 Max 64GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B	—	63.0n=3
Gemma 4up to 31B	18.0n=1	97.0n=1

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