Mac Studio, M5 Max, 36GB vs Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished
Both hold Qwen3-32B at Q6_K. Mac Studio, M4 Max, 64GB, refurbished decodes an est. 13.5 tok/s against 11.4, and costs $550 more — $258.18 per extra token per second. Worth it if you read the output as it arrives; not if you queue jobs.
- Fit
- Tight
- Fits
- Headroom
- 3GB
- 29GB
- Est. speed
- 11.4 tok/s
- 13.5 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $2,499 at Apple
- $3,049 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- Per GB of memory
- $69
- $48
- Memory
- 36GB unified memory
- 64GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 33GB
- 59GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 460GB/s
- 546GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $2,499 in 64d
- $3,049 in 63d
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
- Qwen3-32BTightFits
- 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
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3BTightFits
- Qwen3.6-27BFitsFits
- Qwen3-Coder-NextWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V4-FlashWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V4-ProWon't fitWon't fit
- Gemma-4-26B-A4BFitsFits
- Gemma-4-31BFitsFits
- Gemma-4-12BFitsFits
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.