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M3 Ultra 512GB vs RTX 3060 12GB

For running local LLMs · 28 reports across 7 models

Side A
M3 Ultra 512GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
512GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
RTX 3060 12GB
Vendor
nvidia
VRAM
12GB
Memory
Discrete

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 Ultra 512GBRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3.8up to 2400B50.6n=12
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B20.0n=310.1n=2
Qwen3.6up to 35B70.0n=5
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashup to 552B31.3n=2
Gemma 4up to 31B60.0n=2
KAT-Coder V2.5-Dev14.2n=1
Qwen3.5up to 122B12.0n=1

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