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M2 Pro 32GB vs M5 Pro 48GB

For running local LLMs · 3 reports across 2 models

Side A
M2 Pro 32GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
32GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M5 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 Pro 32GBM5 Pro 48GB
Qwen3.8up to 2400B8.6n=119.0n=1
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B44.0n=1

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