Apple M3 Max vs RTX 4090

Apple M3 Max is $2,400.00 more expensive than RTX 4090, while offering comparable throughput.

Apple M3 Max128GB VRAM

ArchitectureApple Silicon

Cores40

TDP40W

Lowest price$3,999.00

RTX 409024GB VRAM

ArchitectureAda Lovelace

Cores16,384

TDP450W

Lowest price$1,599.00

Winners

speedRTX 409016,384 cores

valueRTX 4090Lowest price $1,599.00

efficiencyApple M3 Max40W draw

vramApple M3 Max128GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	Apple M3 Max	RTX 4090
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct	Q4	70.59 tok/s	233.12 tok/s
bigcode/starcoder2-3b	Q4	70.50 tok/s	216.49 tok/s
LiquidAI/LFM2-1.2B	Q4	69.72 tok/s	224.36 tok/s
google/gemma-3-1b-it	Q4	69.01 tok/s	206.52 tok/s
ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b	Q4	68.75 tok/s	208.48 tok/s