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M5 16GB vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB

For running local LLMs · 31 reports across 8 models

Side A
M5 16GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
16GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Vendor
amd
VRAM
128GB
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 →

ModelM5 16GBAMD Strix Halo 128GB
Qwen3.8up to 2400B9.0n=1153.3n=13
Qwen3.6up to 35B50.0n=8
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B35.0n=4
GLM-4.740.0n=1
LFM2.5up to 3B113.0n=1
Nex-N2.5-mini76.9n=1
Qwen3-Coder-Next36.8n=1
Qwen3.5up to 122B49.0n=1

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