Mac Studio (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max vs Radeon AI Pro R9700 x3

GPU AGPU B

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 (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max1 sourced run · best 110.3 tok/s

Radeon AI Pro R9700 x39 verified runs · best 223.4 tok/s

Model	Mac Studio (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max	Radeon AI Pro R9700 x3
gpt-oss-120b	—	223.4 MXFP4
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	110.3 IQ3_XXS + MTP Q8_0	28.1 UD-IQ3_XXS
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B	—	95.4 Q8_0
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct	—	58.8 Q8_0
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	47.8 UD-Q8_K_XL
Ling-3.0-flash	—	39.3 Q4_0_ROCMFP4_STRIX_LEAN
Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B	—	35.4 BF16
Ornith-1.0-9B	—	31.2 BF16
gemma-4-31B-it	—	23.9 Q8_0

Head-to-head (models tested on both): Mac Studio (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max 1 · Radeon AI Pro R9700 x3 0 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 11, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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