Apple M3 Max is $2,400.00 more expensive than RTX 4090, while offering comparable throughput.
| Spec | Apple M3 Max | RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 128GB | 24GB |
| Cores | 40 | 16,384 |
| TDP | 40W | 450W |
| Architecture | Apple Silicon | Ada Lovelace |
| Lowest price | $3,999.00 | $1,599.00 |
| Model | Quantization | Apple M3 Max | RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR | Q4 | 70.03 tok/s | 234.17 tok/s |
| google/gemma-3-1b-it | Q4 | 69.09 tok/s | 232.46 tok/s |
| meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B | Q4 | 67.81 tok/s | 236.93 tok/s |
| google/gemma-2b | Q4 | 67.67 tok/s | 206.11 tok/s |
| apple/OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct | Q4 | 67.33 tok/s | 222.41 tok/s |