M5 Max 128GB vs RX 7900 XT

For running local LLMs · 2 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: amd
VRAM: 20GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	M5 Max 128GB	RX 7900 XT
Gemma 4up to 31B	7.5n=1	—
Qwen3.6up to 35B	5.5n=1	—

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