M4 Pro 64GB vs NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32GB for local LLMs
33 reports on the M4 Pro 64GB and 5 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
On Qwen3.6 27B at 4-bit, the M4 Pro 64GB has 12.8 generation tokens/s (2 runs); prompt processing 125.2 tokens/s (2 runs); the NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32GB has 45.2 generation tokens/s (one run); prompt processing 2022.5 tokens/s (one run). 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 4500 Blackwell 32GB (273 GB/s on the M4 Pro 64GB, 896 on the NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32GB).
- Memory
- 64GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 9.2 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 33
- Memory
- 32GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 896 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 190 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 5
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 Pro 64GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 27B4-bit | 12.82 runsPP 125.2 (2 runs)llama.cpp, 1 not statedcontext not stated | 45.2one runPP 2022.5 (one run)llama.cppcontext 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 Pro 64GB | NVIDIA RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell 32GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 27B | 7.7 t/sQ8_0 | 22.5 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 27B | 7.7 t/sQ8_0 | 22.5 t/sQ6_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 34.9 t/sQ2_K | 19.4 t/sQ2_K, experts in RAM |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 24.1 t/sQ8_0 | 81.5 t/sQ5_K_M |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 20.7 t/sQ8_0 | 57.2 t/sQ6_K |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 552B · 16B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
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