M5 Max 128GB vs RTX 5090

For running local LLMs · 6 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 32GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	M5 Max 128GB	RTX 5090
Qwen3.6up to 35B	5.5n=1	106.5n=3
Gemma 4up to 31B	7.5n=1	—n=1

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