Mac Studio, M4 Max, 128GB, refurbished vs Mac Studio, M5 Max, 128GB
Both hold Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E at Q3_K_M. Mac Studio, M5 Max, 128GB decodes an est. 36.9 tok/s against 32.9, and costs $690 more — $168.62 per extra token per second. Worth it if you read the output as it arrives; not if you queue jobs.
- Fit
- Fits
- Fits
- Headroom
- 64GB
- 64GB
- Est. speed
- 32.9 tok/s
- 36.9 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $4,409 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- $5,099 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $34
- $40
- Memory
- 128GB unified memory
- 128GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 120GB
- 120GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 546GB/s
- 614GB/s
- Storage
- 1TB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $4,409 in 2d
- $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-A22BTightTight
- 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-M2TightTight
- 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.