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M3 Max 96GB vs M4 Max 128GB

For running local LLMs · 7 reports across 5 models

Side A
M3 Max 96GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
96GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M4 Max 128GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
128GB
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 →

ModelM3 Max 96GBM4 Max 128GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B7.4n=172.5n=1
Qwen3.8up to 2400B15.2n=2
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B12.7n=1
GLM-5.3up to 321Bn=1
Museup to 30B25.0n=1

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