M2 Max 96GB vs M3 Max 48GB

For running local LLMs · 3 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 96GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 48GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M2 Max 96GB	M3 Max 48GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B	28.0n=2	—
Gemma 4up to 31B	—	18.0n=1

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