Mac Studio, M5 Max, 48GB vs Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB
Neither box holds Qwen3-235B-A22B at Q4_K_M, at any quant we compute. This pair is the wrong pair for this model.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −100GB
- −56GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $3,099 at Apple
- $5,499 at Best Buy
- 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 2d
- $5,499 in 2d
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 fitFits
- Mistral-Large-2411Won't fitFits
- 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
Every model we track at Q4_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.