Mac Studio, M5 Max, 48GB vs Mac Studio, M3 Ultra, 96GB, refurbished
Both hold Qwen3-32B at Q6_K. Mac Studio, M3 Ultra, 96GB, refurbished decodes an est. 20.3 tok/s against 15.2, and costs $1,230 more — $242.22 per extra token per second. Worth it if you read the output as it arrives; not if you queue jobs.
- Fit
- Fits
- Fits
- Headroom
- 15GB
- 59GB
- Est. speed
- 15.2 tok/s
- 20.3 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $3,099 at Apple
- $4,329 at Apple Certified Refurbished
- Per GB of memory
- $65
- $45
- Memory
- 48GB unified memory
- 96GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 44GB
- 88GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 614GB/s
- 819GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $3,099 in 3d
- $4,329 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 fitWon't fit
- Mistral-Large-2411Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EWon't fitWon't fit
- 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.