M2 Max 64GB vs M4 Pro 48GB for local LLMs
20 reports on the M2 Max 64GB and 17 on the M4 Pro 48GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 50% higher on the M2 Max 64GB (410 GB/s on the M2 Max 64GB, 273 on the M4 Pro 48GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
M2 Max 64GB
- Memory
- 64GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 410 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 13.6 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 20
M4 Pro 48GB
- Memory
- 48GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 9.2 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 17
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | M2 Max 64GB | M4 Pro 48GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 10.4 t/sQ8_0 | 9.4 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 47.5 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 32.9 t/sQ8_0 | 37.5 t/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 10.4 t/sQ8_0 | 9.4 t/sQ6_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 28.2 t/sQ8_0 | 18.3 t/sQ8_0 |
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