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M4 Max 36GB vs M5 Pro 48GB

For running local LLMs · 2 reports across 2 models

Side A
M4 Max 36GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
36GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M5 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 →

ModelM4 Max 36GBM5 Pro 48GB
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B44.0n=1
Qwen3.8up to 2400B19.0n=1

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