M3 Max 36GB vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

For running local LLMs · 3 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 36GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 16GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	M3 Max 36GB	RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	16.0n=1	45.0n=1
Qwen3.6up to 35B	—	22.0n=1

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