M5 Max 64GB vs AMD Strix Halo 128GB

For running local LLMs · 5 reports across 2 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 64GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

AMD Strix Halo 128GB

Vendor: amd
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Tokens per second by model

Model	M5 Max 64GB	AMD Strix Halo 128GB
Qwen3.6up to 35B	63.0n=2	21.1n=2
Gemma 4up to 31B	97.0n=1	—

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