M2 Max 96GB vs RTX 3060 12GB

For running local LLMs · 5 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 96GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 12GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	M2 Max 96GB	RTX 3060 12GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	—	60.0n=3
Qwen3.6up to 35B	28.0n=2	—

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