M5 Max 64GB vs RTX 5080

For running local LLMs · 4 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 64GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 16GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	M5 Max 64GB	RTX 5080
Qwen3.6up to 35B	63.0n=2	56.0n=1
Gemma 4up to 31B	97.0n=1	—

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