Head to head

Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB vs A100 80GB

The Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB holds more — 128 GB against 80 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The A100 80GB has more bandwidth at 2039 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/sA100 80GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 67.8 Runs comfortably 238
Llama 3.1 70B Runs comfortably 8.48 Runs comfortably 30.5
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 150 Runs comfortably 512
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 400 Runs comfortably 1319
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Runs comfortably 28.7 Runs comfortably 100
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 65.6 Runs comfortably 230
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 38.3 Runs comfortably 136
Qwen3 32B Runs comfortably 17.8 Runs comfortably 63.5
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 120 Runs comfortably 407
Qwen3 30B-A3B Runs comfortably 86.4 Runs comfortably 163
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 7.42 Won't fit 6.02
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Runs comfortably 17.8 Runs comfortably 63.5
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 75.3 Runs comfortably 265
Qwen2.5 72B Runs comfortably 8.24 Runs comfortably 29.6
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 128 Runs comfortably 434
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 46.1 Runs comfortably 162

Specifications

Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBA100 80GB
Memory128 GB80 GB
Bandwidth546 GB/s2039 GB/s
FP16 compute34 TFLOPS312 TFLOPS
Launch price$3,499$15,000
ArchitectureM4Ampere