Mac Studio, M3 Ultra, 96GB, refurbished vs Mac Studio, M5 Max, 128GB
Only Mac Studio, M5 Max, 128GB holds Qwen3-235B-A22B at Q3_K_M. Mac Studio, M3 Ultra, 96GB, refurbished is 29GB short. It costs $770 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Tight
- Headroom
- −29GB
- 2GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 28.6 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $4,329 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- $5,099 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $45
- $40
- Memory
- 96GB unified memory
- 128GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 88GB
- 120GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 819GB/s
- 614GB/s
- Storage
- 1TB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $4,329 in 3d
- $5,099 in 3d
Fit, headroom and speed are computed from each vendor’s published bandwidth and the model’s own size at 8K context. Prices are the cheapest listing we could read on each seller’s page. The arithmetic is here.
Where they actually differ
- Qwen3-235B-A22BWon't fitTight
- DeepSeek-V3Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-3.3-70BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-120bFitsFits
- Mistral-Large-2411FitsFits
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EFitsFits
- Qwen3-32BFitsFits
- Gemma-3-27BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-20bFitsFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructWon't fitWon't fit
- Kimi-K2-InstructWon't fitWon't fit
- GLM-4.6Won't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-R1Won't fitWon't fit
- MiniMax-M2Won't fitTight
- Qwen3-30B-A3BFitsFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507FitsFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
Every model we track at Q3_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.