M4 Max 128GB vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for local LLMs
52 reports on the M4 Max 128GB and 70 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active at 4-bit, the M4 Max 128GB has 57.2 generation tokens/s (2 runs); prompt processing 586.0 tokens/s (one run); the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell has 105.5 generation tokens/s (6 runs); prompt processing 5110.0 tokens/s (6 runs). Those are community reports whose engines and settings differ, so the gap is a rough sign, not a controlled measure of the two cards. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 3.3x higher on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (546 GB/s on the M4 Max 128GB, 1,792 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell). Across 2 shared models with generation measurements on both cards, the M4 Max 128GB's median is higher on 0 and the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell's on 2.
- Memory
- 128GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 546 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 18.4 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 52
- Memory
- 96GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1,792 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 503 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 70
Measured on both
Generation and prompt processing speeds from plain runs (one device, one request, no speculative decoding, the whole model in the device's memory) of the same model size at the same bit class. Each side shows the engines and reported context behind its median. Context can mean a configured window or prompt depth, so these are community comparisons with differing settings. How to read these
| Model | M4 Max 128GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active4-bit | 57.22 runsPP 586.0 (one run)oMLX, 1 not statedcontext not stated | 105.56 runsPP 5110.0 (6 runs)llama.cpp, ik_llama.cpp +2, 3 not stated512 to 256K context, 1 not stated |
| Qwen3.8 27B4-bit | 21.8one runPP 236.6 (one run)llama.cppcontext not stated | 67.0one runengine not statedcontext not stated |
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. Where a model was also measured above, the measurement wins.
| Model | M4 Max 128GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 30.7 t/sQ5_K_S | 83.1 t/sQ5_K_S |
| Qwen3.8 27B | 6.7 t/sFP16 | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 21.2 t/sFP16 | 57.5 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | 48.3 t/sQ2_K | 130.8 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 6.7 t/sFP16 | 18.3 t/sFP16 |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 18.2 t/sFP16 | 49.3 t/sFP16 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| GLM-5.3 320B · 18B active | doesn't fit at these settings | 6.8 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
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