M3 Max 36GB vs M5 Max 128GB

For running local LLMs · 6 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 36GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M3 Max 36GB	M5 Max 128GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	16.0n=1	7.5n=3
Qwen3.6up to 35B	—	5.5n=2

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