RTX A6000 48GB vs MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB for Local LLMs
The RTX A6000 48GB has about 92% more memory bandwidth (768 vs 400 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 92% faster on the RTX A6000 48GB. The RTX A6000 48GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 41 vs 39 of 69 models (48 vs 32 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the RTX A6000 48GB but not the MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $4,500 for the RTX A6000 48GB vs $3,299 for the MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (53 shared models), the RTX A6000 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 53 rows vs 0. Methodology.