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M3 Pro 36GB vs M4 Pro 48GB

For running local LLMs · 6 reports across 4 models

Side A
M3 Pro 36GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
36GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M4 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 →

ModelM3 Pro 36GBM4 Pro 48GB
Museup to 30B18.0n=2
Qwen3.8up to 2400B17.7n=120.3n=1
GLM-5.3up to 321B1.8n=1
LingBot-World-V2up to 1Bn=1

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