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RTX 5080 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 5080 has more bandwidth at 960 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 5080tok/sMac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 121 Runs comfortably 67.8
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.35 Runs comfortably 8.48
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 266 Runs comfortably 150
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 700 Runs comfortably 400
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.91 Runs comfortably 28.7
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 117 Runs comfortably 65.6
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 68.7 Runs comfortably 38.3
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 4.98 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 212 Runs comfortably 120
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 46.2 Runs comfortably 86.4
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.36 Won't fit 7.42
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 4.98 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 135 Runs comfortably 75.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.31 Runs comfortably 8.24
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 226 Runs comfortably 128
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 82.3 Runs comfortably 46.1

Specifications

RTX 5080Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
Memory16 GB128 GB
Bandwidth960 GB/s546 GB/s
FP16 compute112 TFLOPS34 TFLOPS
Launch price$999$3,499
ArchitectureBlackwellM4