Mac Studio, M5 Max, 48GB vs Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB
Only Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB holds Gemma-3-27B at BF16. Mac Studio, M5 Max, 48GB is 13GB short. It costs $2,400 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Fits
- Headroom
- −13GB
- 31GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 14.4 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $3,099 at Apple
- $5,499 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $65
- $57
- Memory
- 48GB unified memory
- 96GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 44GB
- 88GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 614GB/s
- 1.2TB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $3,099 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-3.3-70BWon'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
- Qwen3-32BWon't fitFits
- Gemma-3-27BWon't fitFits
- gpt-oss-20bTightFits
- 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-A3BWon't fitFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507Won't fitFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
Every model we track at BF16. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.