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M2 Max 96GB vs M4 Pro 48GB

For running local LLMs · 11 reports across 6 models

Side A
M2 Max 96GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
96GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M4 Pro 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 →

ModelM2 Max 96GBM4 Pro 48GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B28.0n=3
Qwen3.8up to 2400B22.0n=220.3n=1
Museup to 30B18.0n=2
GLM-5.3up to 321B1.8n=1
LingBot-World-V2up to 1Bn=1
Qwen3up to 235B43.0n=1

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