Mac Studio, M5 Max, 36GB vs Mac Studio, M5 Max, 48GB
Neither box holds Qwen3-235B-A22B at Q6_K, at any quant we compute. This pair is the wrong pair for this model.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −162GB
- −151GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $2,499 at Best Buy
- $3,099 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $69
- $65
- Memory
- 36GB unified memory
- 48GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 33GB
- 44GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 614GB/s
- 614GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $2,499 in 3d
- $3,099 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-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
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.