Head to head

Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB vs NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)

Both hold 128 GB, so capacity is a wash. The Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB has more bandwidth at 546 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/sNVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)tok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 67.8 Runs comfortably 35.1
Llama 3.1 70B Runs comfortably 8.48 Runs comfortably 4.37
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 150 Runs comfortably 78.1
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 400 Runs comfortably 209
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Runs comfortably 28.7 Runs comfortably 14.8
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 65.6 Runs comfortably 33.9
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 38.3 Runs comfortably 19.8
Qwen3 32B Runs comfortably 17.8 Runs comfortably 9.17
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 120 Runs comfortably 62.2
Qwen3 30B-A3B Runs comfortably 86.4 Runs comfortably 53.5
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 7.42 Won't fit 6.20
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Runs comfortably 17.8 Runs comfortably 9.17
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 75.3 Runs comfortably 38.9
Qwen2.5 72B Runs comfortably 8.24 Runs comfortably 4.24
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 128 Runs comfortably 66.4
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 46.1 Runs comfortably 23.8

Specifications

Mac Studio M4 Max 128GBNVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)
Memory128 GB128 GB
Bandwidth546 GB/s273 GB/s
FP16 compute34 TFLOPS125 TFLOPS
Launch price$3,499$3,999
ArchitectureM4Blackwell