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M4 Pro 48GB vs RTX 3060 12GB

For running local LLMs · 28 reports across 9 models

Side A
M4 Pro 48GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
48GB
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 →

ModelM4 Pro 48GBRTX 3060 12GB
Qwen3.8up to 2400B20.3n=150.6n=12
Qwen3.6up to 35B70.0n=5
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B10.1n=2
Gemma 4up to 31B60.0n=2
Museup to 30B18.0n=2
GLM-5.3up to 321B1.8n=1
KAT-Coder V2.5-Dev14.2n=1
LingBot-World-V2up to 1Bn=1
Qwen3.5up to 122B12.0n=1

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