Apple M3 Max vs Apple M2 Ultra

Apple M3 Max is $2,000.00 less expensive than Apple M2 Ultra, while offering comparable throughput.

Apple M3 Max128GB VRAM

ArchitectureApple Silicon

Cores40

TDP40W

Lowest price$3,999.00

Apple M2 Ultra192GB VRAM

ArchitectureApple Silicon

Cores76

TDP60W

Lowest price$5,999.00

Winners

speedApple M2 Ultra76 cores

valueApple M3 MaxLowest price $3,999.00

efficiencyApple M3 Max40W draw

vram

Model	Quantization	Apple M3 Max	Apple M2 Ultra
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR	Q4	70.03 tok/s	130.39 tok/s
google/gemma-3-1b-it	Q4	69.09 tok/s	139.91 tok/s
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B	Q4	67.81 tok/s	136.12 tok/s
google/gemma-2b	Q4	67.67 tok/s	141.64 tok/s
apple/OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct	Q4	67.33 tok/s	131.32 tok/s