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M5 32GB vs M5 Max 36GB

For running local LLMs · 3 reports across 3 models

Side A
M5 32GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
32GB
Memory
Unified
Side B
M5 Max 36GB
Vendor
apple
VRAM
36GB
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 32GBM5 Max 36GB
DeepSeek V4 Flashup to 285B1.0n=1
Gemma 4up to 31Bn=1
Qwen3.8up to 2400B144.0n=1

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