Head to head

RTX 5090 vs Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

The Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB holds more — 128 GB against 32 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The RTX 5090 has more bandwidth at 1792 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 5090tok/sMac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 222 Runs comfortably 67.8
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 2.65 Runs comfortably 8.48
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 478 Runs comfortably 150
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 1235 Runs comfortably 400
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 6.75 Runs comfortably 28.7
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 214 Runs comfortably 65.6
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 126 Runs comfortably 38.3
Qwen3 32B Runs comfortably 59.0 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 380 Runs comfortably 120
Qwen3 30B-A3B Runs comfortably 159 Runs comfortably 86.4
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.83 Won't fit 7.42
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Runs comfortably 59.0 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 247 Runs comfortably 75.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 2.50 Runs comfortably 8.24
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 405 Runs comfortably 128
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 151 Runs comfortably 46.1

Specifications

RTX 5090Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
Memory32 GB128 GB
Bandwidth1792 GB/s546 GB/s
FP16 compute209 TFLOPS34 TFLOPS
Launch price$1,999$3,499
ArchitectureBlackwellM4