Head to head

RTX 5070 Ti vs Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

The Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB holds more — 128 GB against 16 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The RTX 5070 Ti has more bandwidth at 896 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 5070 Titok/sMac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 113 Runs comfortably 67.8
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.35 Runs comfortably 8.48
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 249 Runs comfortably 150
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 657 Runs comfortably 400
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.90 Runs comfortably 28.7
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 109 Runs comfortably 65.6
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 64.2 Runs comfortably 38.3
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 4.95 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 198 Runs comfortably 120
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 45.7 Runs comfortably 86.4
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.36 Won't fit 7.42
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 4.95 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 126 Runs comfortably 75.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.31 Runs comfortably 8.24
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 211 Runs comfortably 128
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 76.9 Runs comfortably 46.1

Specifications

RTX 5070 TiMac Studio M4 Max 128GB
Memory16 GB128 GB
Bandwidth896 GB/s546 GB/s
FP16 compute88 TFLOPS34 TFLOPS
Launch price$749$3,499
ArchitectureBlackwellM4