Mac Studio (M4 Max) vs RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

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

RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell29 verified runs · best 1271.3 tok/s

Specs and evidence

	Mac Studio (M4 Max)	RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
VRAM	64 GB	96 GB
Sourced runs on the board	3	29
Models measured	1	23
Best output tok/s	226.9 tok/s	1271.3 tok/s
Highest measured peak VRAM	—	72.7 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 Mac Studio (M4 Max) records 226.9 tok/s and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell records 330.2 tok/s — treat it as one data point, not a ranking.

The measured matrix

Model	Mac Studio (M4 Max)	RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
MobileLLM-125M	—	1271.3 Q8_0
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct	—	1060.0 Q8_0
MobileLLM-350M	—	980.8 Q8_0
SmolLM2-360M-Instruct	—	968.1 Q8_0
Qwen3-0.6B	—	956.4 Q4_K_M
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	—	699.9 Q8_0
gemma-3-1b-it	—	664.3 Q4_K_M
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	—	489.2 Q4_K_M
Ling-3.0-tiny	—	369.1 Q4_K_M
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	226.9 Q4_K_XL	330.2 NVFP4
Ornith-1.0-35B	—	309.7 Q4_K_M
Qwen3.8-27B	—	296.0 NVFP4
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct	—	237.3 FP8
Qwen3-Coder-Next	—	174.3 FP8
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	—	158.1 FP8
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	152.2 NVFP4
Qwen3.8-27B-MTP	—	112.1 NVFP4
Qwen3.6-27B	—	101.4 FP8
Qwen3-14B	—	90.8 FP8
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct	—	90.0 Q8_0
Qwen3.6-27B-MTP	—	60.1 Q6_K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct	—	50.3 BF16
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	—	26.1 FP8

Head-to-head (models tested on both): Mac Studio (M4 Max) 0 · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 1 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 17, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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