Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished vs Mac Studio, M4 Max, 128GB, refurbished
Only Mac Studio, M4 Max, 128GB, refurbished holds Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E at Q6_K. Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished is 33GB short. It costs $1,360 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Fits
- Headroom
- −33GB
- 28GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 19.6 tok/s
- 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 fitFits
- gpt-oss-120bWon't fitFits
- Mistral-Large-2411Won't fitFits
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EWon't fitFits
- 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 fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-30B-A3BFitsFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507FitsFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
Every model we track at Q6_K. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.