M4 Max 128GB vs RTX 5090

Name: M4 Max 128GB vs RTX 5090
Creator: DiggTop

GPU AGPU B

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

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

RTX 509024 verified runs · best 2231.4 tok/s

Model	M4 Max 128GB	RTX 5090
LFM2-350M	—	2231.4 NVFP4
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	—	446.7 NVFP4
Qwen3.8-27B	134.0 4-bit	435.1 IQ4_XS
Ornith-1.0-35B-PrismaAURA-4.75bit-vllm-MTP	—	283.1 NVFP4
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct	—	280.8 IQ4_XS
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B	—	258.8 NVFP4
North-Mini-Code-1.0	—	258.4 UD-Q6_K_XL
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP	—	222.9 Unsloth-Dynamic-IQ4_XS
Laguna-XS-2.1	—	216.7 NVFP4
KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev-AWQ-W4A16-ASYM	—	201.2 W4A16
Ornith-1.0-35B	—	196.6 AWQ
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	124.8 NVFP4
Qwen3.6-27B	—	120.9 NVFP4
Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated	—	117.7 NVFP4
Qwen3.8-27B-5090-goldilocks	—	93.5 Q6_K
Qwen3.6-27B-MTP	—	28.3 Q5_K_M
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-MXFP4	—	26.4 MXFP4

Head-to-head (models tested on both): M4 Max 128GB 0 · RTX 5090 1 · tied 0 · data as of Sep 29, 2026. Full rules: methodology.