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MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs RTX 3090 24GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 3090 24GB has about 134% more memory bandwidth (936 vs 400 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 134% faster on the RTX 3090 24GB. The MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 44 vs 35 of 69 models (64 vs 24 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB but not the RTX 3090 24GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $3,899 for the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs $1,499 for the RTX 3090 24GB. 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 (51 shared models), the RTX 3090 24GB posts the higher tok/s in 44 rows vs 7. Methodology.

Spec comparison

MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GBRTX 3090 24GB
VendorAppleNVIDIA
VRAM64 GB24 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth400 GB/s936 GB/s
TDP120 W350 W
MSRP (list)$3,899$1,499
BuySearch Amazon (affiliate)MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ventus 3X 24G OC (affiliate) · More listings

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 51 shared models

ModelParams (B)MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB tok/sMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fitsRTX 3090 24GB tok/sRTX 3090 24GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.08235.7 est.Yes551.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.0127.3 est.Yes297.8 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.3110.7 est.Yes259.0 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.084.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.784.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.284.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.584.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.084.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.084.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.784.8 est.Yes198.5 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.279.5 est.Yes186.1 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
gpt-oss-20b21.570.7 est.Yes161.8 measuredYesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.784.8 est.Yes161.7 est.NoRTX 3090 24GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it25.267.0 est.Yes156.7 est.YesRTX 3090 24GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.384.8 est.Yes155.5 est.NoRTX 3090 24GB

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

MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GBRTX 3090 24GB
Catalog models that fit44 of 6935 of 69
Largest exclusive fitQwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B)—

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