M4 16GB vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for local LLMs
26 reports on the M4 16GB and 71 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 14.9x higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (120 GB/s on the M4 16GB, 1,792 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
- Memory
- 16GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 120 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 4.3 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 26
- Memory
- 96GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,792 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 503 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 71
Estimated by the calculator
The quant the calculator recommends for each card and its estimated speed at a 32,768-token context with 32 GB of system RAM, from memory bandwidth and the model's shape.
| Model | M4 16GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | doesn't fit at these settings | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 83.1 t/sQ5_K_S |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 57.5 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 130.8 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | doesn't fit at these settings | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 49.3 t/sFP16 |
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