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MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for Local LLMs

The MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB has about 39% more memory bandwidth (400 vs 288 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 39% faster on the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB. The MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 44 vs 24 of 69 models (64 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB but not the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $3,899 for the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs $499 for the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. 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 (44 shared models), the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB posts the higher tok/s in 31 rows vs 13. Methodology.

Spec comparison

MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GBRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
VendorAppleNVIDIA
VRAM64 GB16 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5GDDR6
Memory bandwidth400 GB/s288 GB/s
TDP120 W165 W
MSRP (list)$3,899$499
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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 44 shared models

ModelParams (B)MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB tok/sMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fitsRTX 4060 Ti 16GB tok/sRTX 4060 Ti 16GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.08235.7 est.Yes169.7 est.YesMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.084.8 est.Yes145.0 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.584.8 est.Yes131.9 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.0127.3 est.Yes91.6 est.YesMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.284.8 est.Yes126.6 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.3110.7 est.Yes79.7 est.YesMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.784.8 est.Yes109.6 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.784.8 est.Yes104.1 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.084.8 est.Yes102.5 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.084.8 est.Yes102.2 est.NoRTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.784.8 est.Yes22.1 est.NoMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.384.8 est.Yes21.2 est.NoMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.279.5 est.Yes57.3 est.YesMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
gpt-oss-20b21.570.7 est.Yes50.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it25.267.0 est.Yes48.2 est.YesMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB

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 4060 Ti 16GB
Catalog models that fit44 of 6924 of 69
Largest exclusive fitQwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B)—

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