Arc B570 10GB vs Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB for Local LLMs
The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB has about 111% more memory bandwidth (800 vs 380 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 111% faster on the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB. The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 50 vs 17 of 61 models (192 vs 10 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB but not the Arc B570 10GB: Qwen3-235B-A22B (235.1B). MSRP is $219 for the Arc B570 10GB vs $6,999 for the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB. 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 (38 shared models), the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB posts the higher tok/s in 36 rows vs 2. Methodology.