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M4 32GB vs M5 32GB

For running local LLMs · 4 reports across 3 models

Side A
M4 32GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
32GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M5 32GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
32GB
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 →

ModelM4 32GBM5 32GB
Qwen3.8up to 2400B22.0n=2
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B1.0n=1
Gemma 4up to 31Bn=1

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