Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished vs Mac Studio, M4 Max, 128GB, refurbished
Neither box holds Llama-3.3-70B at BF16. The largest quant that fits is Q8_0, on Mac Studio, M4 Max, 128GB, refurbished.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −85GB
- −24GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $3,049 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- $4,409 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- Per GB of memory
- $48
- $34
- Memory
- 64GB unified memory
- 128GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 59GB
- 120GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 546GB/s
- 546GB/s
- Storage
- 1TB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $3,049 in 3d
- $4,409 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 fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V3Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-3.3-70BWon't fitWon't fit
- gpt-oss-120bWon't fitWon't fit
- Mistral-Large-2411Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-32BWon't fitFits
- Gemma-3-27BTightFits
- 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 fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-30B-A3BWon't fitFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507FitsFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
Every model we track at BF16. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.