B200 192GB SXM vs MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB for Local LLMs

The B200 192GB SXM has about 1900% more memory bandwidth (8,000 vs 400 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 1900% faster on the B200 192GB SXM. The B200 192GB SXM fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 57 vs 39 of 69 models (192 vs 32 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the B200 192GB SXM but not the MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB: MiMo-V2.5 (310.0B). MSRP is $40,000 for the B200 192GB SXM 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. Not retail-shoppable: B200 192GB SXM (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (53 shared models), the B200 192GB SXM posts the higher tok/s in 53 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	B200 192GB SXM	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB
Vendor	NVIDIA	Apple
VRAM	192 GB	32 GB
Memory type	HBM3e	LPDDR5
Memory bandwidth	8,000 GB/s	400 GB/s
TDP	1000 W	120 W
MSRP (list)	$40,000	$3,299
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 53 shared models

Model	Params (B)	B200 192GB SXM tok/s	B200 192GB SXM fits	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB tok/s	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	4713.8 est.	Yes	235.7 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	2545.5 est.	Yes	127.3 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	2213.4 est.	Yes	110.7 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	1697.0 est.	Yes	122.9 est.	No	B200 192GB SXM
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	1697.0 est.	Yes	118.2 est.	No	B200 192GB SXM
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	1697.0 est.	Yes	84.8 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	1590.9 est.	Yes	79.5 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	1414.1 est.	Yes	70.7 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	1339.7 est.	Yes	67.0 est.	Yes	B200 192GB SXM

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

	B200 192GB SXM	MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB
Catalog models that fit	57 of 69	39 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	MiMo-V2.5 (310.0B)	—

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