M4 Pro 64GB vs AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB for local LLMs
33 reports on the M4 Pro 64GB and 21 on the AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB
Which is faster for local LLMs?
Nobody has reported the same model at the same quant on both cards yet, so there's no measured head-to-head. Memory bandwidth, which caps how fast a card can write, is 2.3x higher on the AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB (273 GB/s on the M4 Pro 64GB, 640 on the AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB). The estimates below compare them on the models people run most.
M4 Pro 64GB
- Memory
- 64GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 9.2 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 33
AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB
- Memory
- 16GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 640 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 195 TFLOPS
- Reports
- 21
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.
| Model | M4 Pro 64GB | AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B | 7.7 t/sQ8_0 | 41.7 t/sQ2_K |
| Qwen3.8 125B · 6B active | 34.9 t/sQ2_K | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 35B · 3B active | 24.1 t/sQ8_0 | 138.0 t/sQ2_K |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B · 13B active | doesn't fit at these settings | doesn't fit at these settings |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 7.7 t/sQ8_0 | 41.7 t/sQ2_K |
| Gemma 4 26B · 4B active | 20.7 t/sQ8_0 | 93.0 t/sQ3_K_S |
Change the context, RAM or model in the calculator: M4 Pro 64GB · AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB
Every report on each card, with its source: M4 Pro 64GB · AMD RX 9070 XT 16GB