MacBook Neo A18 Pro 8GB vs RTX 4090D 24GB (China) for Local LLMs
The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) has about 1580% more memory bandwidth (1,008 vs 60 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 1580% faster on the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). The RTX 4090D 24GB (China) fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 36 vs 11 of 67 models (24 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) but not the MacBook Neo A18 Pro 8GB: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (36.0B). MSRP is $0 for the MacBook Neo A18 Pro 8GB vs $1,599 for the RTX 4090D 24GB (China). MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: RTX 4090D 24GB (China) (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (36 shared models), the RTX 4090D 24GB (China) posts the higher tok/s in 36 rows vs 0. Methodology.