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Gaudi 3 128GB vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB for Local LLMs

The Gaudi 3 128GB has about 300% more memory bandwidth (3,276 vs 819 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 300% faster on the Gaudi 3 128GB. Both fit the same number of catalog models at Q4/8K (47 of 61; 128 vs 96 GB VRAM). MSRP is $12,500 for the Gaudi 3 128GB vs $3,999 for the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: Gaudi 3 128GB (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (54 shared models), the Gaudi 3 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 54 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Gaudi 3 128GBMac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
VendorIntelApple
VRAM128 GB96 GB
Memory typeHBM2eLPDDR5
Memory bandwidth3,276 GB/s819 GB/s
TDP600 W480 W
MSRP (list)$12,500$3,999
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 54 shared models

ModelParams (B)Gaudi 3 128GB tok/sGaudi 3 128GB fitsMac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB tok/sMac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.82605.9 est.Yes651.5 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.02084.7 est.Yes521.2 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.21737.3 est.Yes434.3 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.01042.4 est.Yes260.6 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5694.9 est.Yes173.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5694.9 est.Yes173.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2694.9 est.Yes173.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5694.9 est.Yes173.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3694.9 est.Yes173.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7694.9 est.Yes173.7 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2651.5 est.Yes154.6 measuredYesGaudi 3 128GB
MiniMax-M2.7228.7588.4 est.No82.7 est.NoGaudi 3 128GB
gpt-oss-20b21.5579.1 est.Yes115.5 measuredYesGaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.8548.6 est.Yes137.2 est.YesGaudi 3 128GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.8548.6 est.Yes137.2 est.YesGaudi 3 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

Gaudi 3 128GBMac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Catalog models that fit47 of 6147 of 61
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