Apple M3 Max is $3,200.00 less expensive than NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada, while offering comparable throughput.
| Spec | Apple M3 Max | NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 128GB | 48GB |
| Cores | 40 | 18,176 |
| TDP | 40W | 300W |
| Architecture | Apple Silicon | Ada Lovelace |
| Lowest price | $3,999.00 | $7,199.00 |
| Model | Quantization | Apple M3 Max | NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR | Q4 | 70.03 tok/s | 220.28 tok/s |
| google/gemma-3-1b-it | Q4 | 69.09 tok/s | 234.08 tok/s |
| meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B | Q4 | 67.81 tok/s | 204.61 tok/s |
| google/gemma-2b | Q4 | 67.67 tok/s | 217.30 tok/s |
| apple/OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct | Q4 | 67.33 tok/s | 216.79 tok/s |