M4 Max 128GB vs RTX 4090

GPU AGPU B

Best verified output tok/s per model (single-stream generation). Hover a value for the quant.

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M4 Max 128GB1 verified run · best 134.0 tok/s

RTX 40902 verified runs · best 141.2 tok/s

Model	M4 Max 128GB	RTX 4090
Qwen3.8-27B	134.0 4-bit	141.2 int4 (output head only)

Head-to-head (models tested on both): M4 Max 128GB 0 · RTX 4090 1 · tied 0 · data as of Sep 29, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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