M3 Max 128GB vs M4 16GB

For running local LLMs · 2 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 16GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M3 Max 128GB	M4 16GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	—	23.0n=1
Qwen3.6up to 35B	5.5n=1	—

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