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RTX 3060 12GB vs Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

The Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB holds more — 128 GB against 12 GB — which decides what you can load at all. 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)RTX 3060 12GBtok/sMac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 43.7 Runs comfortably 67.8
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.13 Runs comfortably 8.48
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 97.2 Runs comfortably 150
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 260 Runs comfortably 400
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.27 Runs comfortably 28.7
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 42.3 Runs comfortably 65.6
Qwen3 14B Won't fit 22.1 Runs comfortably 38.3
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 3.06 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 77.4 Runs comfortably 120
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 26.1 Runs comfortably 86.4
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.07 Won't fit 7.42
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 3.06 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 48.5 Runs comfortably 75.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.08 Runs comfortably 8.24
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 82.6 Runs comfortably 128
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 29.7 Runs comfortably 46.1

Specifications

RTX 3060 12GBMac Studio M4 Max 128GB
Memory12 GB128 GB
Bandwidth360 GB/s546 GB/s
FP16 compute25 TFLOPS34 TFLOPS
Launch price$329$3,499
ArchitectureAmpereM4