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

vramApple M2 Ultra192GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	Apple M3 Max	Apple M2 Ultra
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct	Q4	70.59 tok/s	120.03 tok/s
bigcode/starcoder2-3b	Q4	70.50 tok/s	140.13 tok/s
LiquidAI/LFM2-1.2B	Q4	69.72 tok/s	136.28 tok/s
google/gemma-3-1b-it	Q4	69.01 tok/s	132.98 tok/s
ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b	Q4	68.75 tok/s	123.10 tok/s