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RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

The Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB holds more — 128 GB against 16 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 4060 Ti 16GBtok/sMac Studio M4 Max 128GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 33.6 Runs comfortably 67.8
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.17 Runs comfortably 8.48
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 74.8 Runs comfortably 150
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 200 Runs comfortably 400
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.28 Runs comfortably 28.7
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 32.5 Runs comfortably 65.6
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 18.9 Runs comfortably 38.3
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 3.71 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 59.6 Runs comfortably 120
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 32.0 Runs comfortably 86.4
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.01 Won't fit 7.42
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 3.71 Runs comfortably 17.8
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 37.3 Runs comfortably 75.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.13 Runs comfortably 8.24
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 63.6 Runs comfortably 128
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 22.8 Runs comfortably 46.1

Specifications

RTX 4060 Ti 16GBMac Studio M4 Max 128GB
Memory16 GB128 GB
Bandwidth288 GB/s546 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS34 TFLOPS
Launch price$499$3,499
ArchitectureAdaM4