M5 Max 128GB vs RTX A6000 48GB

For running local LLMs · 7 reports across 3 models

Side A

Vendor: apple
VRAM: 128GB
Memory: Unified

Side B

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 48GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	M5 Max 128GB	RTX A6000 48GB
Gemma 4up to 31B	7.5n=3	16.9n=1
Qwen3.6up to 35B	5.5n=2	—
Qwen3.5up to 122B	—n=1	—

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