Mac Studio (M4 Max) vs Radeon AI Pro R9700
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.
Mac Studio (M4 Max)3 sourced runs · best 226.9 tok/s
Radeon AI Pro R970014 verified runs · best 969.4 tok/s
Specs and evidence
| Mac Studio (M4 Max) | Radeon AI Pro R9700 | |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Sourced runs on the board | 3 | 14 |
| Models measured | 1 | 14 |
| Best output tok/s | 226.9 tok/s | 969.4 tok/s |
| Highest measured peak VRAM | — | 92.2 GB |
| Street price (latest snapshot) | — | — |
Head-to-head
Only one model has been measured on both cards (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B). On that single data point Mac Studio (M4 Max) records 226.9 tok/s and Radeon AI Pro R9700 records 969.4 tok/s — treat it as one data point, not a ranking.
The measured matrix
| Model | Mac Studio (M4 Max) | Radeon AI Pro R9700 |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | 226.9 | 969.4 |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B | — | 554.5 |
| LFM2.5-230M | — | 520.0 |
| LFM2.5-350M | — | 466.0 |
| Qwen3.5-27B | — | 286.6 |
| LFM2.5-8B-A1B | — | 241.1 |
| gemma-4-E2B-it | — | 169.7 |
| gemma-4-E4B-it | — | 137.0 |
| Muse-Glimmer-30B | — | 134.6 |
| Qwen3.8-27B | — | 64.3 |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | — | 59.4 |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next Base | — | 57.0 |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | — | 25.6 |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | — | 17.4 |