Apple M3 Max vs NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada

Apple M3 Max is $3,200.00 less expensive than NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada, while offering comparable throughput.

Apple M3 Max128GB VRAM

ArchitectureApple Silicon

Cores40

TDP40W

Lowest price$3,999.00

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada48GB VRAM

ArchitectureAda Lovelace

Cores18,176

TDP300W

Lowest price$7,199.00

Winners

speedNVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada18,176 cores

valueApple M3 MaxLowest price $3,999.00

efficiencyApple M3 Max40W draw

vramApple M3 Max128GB VRAM

Model	Quantization	Apple M3 Max	NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct	Q4	70.59 tok/s	225.07 tok/s
bigcode/starcoder2-3b	Q4	70.50 tok/s	226.91 tok/s
LiquidAI/LFM2-1.2B	Q4	69.72 tok/s	222.27 tok/s
google/gemma-3-1b-it	Q4	69.01 tok/s	232.73 tok/s
ibm-research/PowerMoE-3b	Q4	68.75 tok/s	209.52 tok/s