Mac Studio (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max vs RTX 3090 x2

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.

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

RTX 3090 x26 verified runs · best 240.8 tok/s

Model	Mac Studio (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max	RTX 3090 x2
Qwen3.6-27B	—	240.8 AutoRound INT4
Qwen3.8-27B	—	219.8 AutoRound INT4 + fp8 KV
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	—	197.0 NVFP4
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	110.3 IQ3_XXS + MTP Q8_0	40.1 Unsloth-Dynamic-IQ3_XXS
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-REAP-256-duo	—	53.5 Unsloth-Dynamic-Q3_K_XL

Head-to-head (models tested on both): Mac Studio (Mac16,9) with Apple M4 Max 1 · RTX 3090 x2 0 · tied 0 · data as of Oct 11, 2026. Full rules: methodology.

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