M5 Max 128GB vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB

For running local LLMs · 10 reports across 3 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

AMD Strix Halo 128GB

Vendor: amd
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M5 Max 128GB	AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B	5.5n=2	50.0n=4
Gemma 4up to 31B	7.5n=3	—
Qwen3.5up to 122B	—n=1	—

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