Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB vs Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 512GB
Both hold gpt-oss-120b at Q4_K_M. Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 96GB is the faster of the two, at an est. 195 tok/s against 195. We do not have a price for both, so we do not name a winner.
- Fit
- Fits
- Fits
- Headroom
- 16GB
- 432GB
- Est. speed
- 195 tok/s
- 195 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $5,499 at Apple
- no price yet
- Per GB of memory
- $57
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- Memory
- 96GB unified memory
- 512GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 88GB
- 504GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 1.2TB/s
- 1.2TB/s
- Storage
- 1TB
- 1TB
- Lowest recorded
- $5,499 in 3d
- none yet
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 fitFits
- DeepSeek-V3Won't fitFits
- Llama-3.3-70BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-120bFitsFits
- Mistral-Large-2411FitsFits
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EFitsFits
- Qwen3-32BFitsFits
- Gemma-3-27BFitsFits
- gpt-oss-20bFitsFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitFits
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructWon't fitFits
- Kimi-K2-InstructWon't fitWon't fit
- GLM-4.6Won't fitFits
- DeepSeek-R1Won't fitFits
- MiniMax-M2Won't fitFits
- Qwen3-30B-A3BFitsFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507FitsFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
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.