Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB vs Mac mini M4 32GB for Local LLMs

The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB has about 79% more memory bandwidth (215 vs 120 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 79% faster on the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 51 vs 39 of 69 models (96 vs 32 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB but not the Mac mini M4 32GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $2,000 for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB vs $999 for the Mac mini M4 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 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 52 rows vs 1. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB	Mac mini M4 32GB
Vendor	AMD	Apple
VRAM	96 GB	32 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	LPDDR5X
Memory bandwidth	215 GB/s	120 GB/s
TDP	120 W	155 W
MSRP (list)	$2,000	$999
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 53 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB tok/s	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB fits	Mac mini M4 32GB tok/s	Mac mini M4 32GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	126.7 est.	Yes	70.7 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	68.4 est.	Yes	38.2 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	59.5 est.	Yes	33.2 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	45.6 est.	Yes	36.9 est.	No	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	45.6 est.	Yes	35.5 est.	No	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	45.6 est.	Yes	25.5 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	42.8 est.	Yes	41.3 measured	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	38.0 est.	Yes	21.2 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	36.0 est.	Yes	20.1 est.	Yes	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

	Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128GB	Mac mini M4 32GB
Catalog models that fit	51 of 69	39 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)	—

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