Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished vs Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB
Only Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB holds Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E at Q5_K_M. Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished is 21GB short. It costs $2,450 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Fits
- Headroom
- −21GB
- 8GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 49.8 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $3,049 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- $5,499 at Best Buy
- Per GB of memory
- $48
- $57
- Memory
- 64GB unified memory
- 96GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 59GB
- 88GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 546GB/s
- 1.2TB/s
- Storage
- 1TB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $3,049 in 3d
- $5,499 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-3.3-70BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-120bWon't fitTight
- Mistral-Large-2411Won't fitWon't fit
- 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 Q5_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.