CMP 170HX vs Mac Studio (M4 Max)

Best sourced output tok/s per model (single-stream generation) — engine and version, quantization, context and a source link on every row. Hover a value for the quant.

CMP 170HX16 sourced runs · best 255.9 tok/s

Mac Studio (M4 Max)3 verified runs · best 226.9 tok/s

Specs and evidence

	CMP 170HX	Mac Studio (M4 Max)
VRAM	64 GB	64 GB
Sourced runs on the board	16	3
Models measured	11	1
Best output tok/s	255.9 tok/s	226.9 tok/s
Highest measured peak VRAM	58.7 GB	—
Street price (latest snapshot)	—	—

Sourced rows only. Peak VRAM is recorded by the person who ran the benchmark, so it is a floor for what the card can hold, not a specification. Price snapshots.

Head-to-head

Only one model has been measured on both cards (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B). On that single data point CMP 170HX records 87.2 tok/s and Mac Studio (M4 Max) records 226.9 tok/s — treat it as one data point, not a ranking.

The measured matrix

Model	CMP 170HX	Mac Studio (M4 Max)
Qwen3.8-27B	255.9 W4A16	—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	87.2 UD-Q8_K_XL	226.9 Q4_K_XL
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	165.1 Q8_0	—
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B	87.1 Q8_0	—
Ornith-1.5-9B	61.5 BF16	—
Qwen3.8-27B-MTP	46.4 INT8-W8A16	—
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	46.1 UD-IQ1_S	—
Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct	44.5 UD-Q3_K_XL	—
gemma-4-31B-it	28.3 NVFP4	—
granite-4.2-30b	23.7 Q8_0	—
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct	20.1 NVFP4	—

Head-to-head (models tested on both): CMP 170HX 0 · Mac Studio (M4 Max) 1 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 17, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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