MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs RTX 4070 Super 12GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 4070 Super 12GB has about 26% more memory bandwidth (504 vs 400 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 26% faster on the RTX 4070 Super 12GB. The MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 44 vs 18 of 69 models (64 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB but not the RTX 4070 Super 12GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $3,899 for the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs $599 for the RTX 4070 Super 12GB. 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 (41 shared models), the RTX 4070 Super 12GB posts the higher tok/s in 35 rows vs 6. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Vendor	Apple	NVIDIA
VRAM	64 GB	12 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5	GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth	400 GB/s	504 GB/s
TDP	120 W	220 W
MSRP (list)	$3,899	$599
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

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 41 shared models

Model	Params (B)	MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB tok/s	MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fits	RTX 4070 Super 12GB tok/s	RTX 4070 Super 12GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	235.7 est.	Yes	297.0 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	70.7 est.	Yes	198.8 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	127.3 est.	Yes	160.4 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	84.8 est.	Yes	142.5 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	67.0 est.	Yes	141.7 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	110.7 est.	Yes	139.4 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	84.8 est.	Yes	129.7 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	84.8 est.	Yes	124.5 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	84.8 est.	Yes	107.8 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	84.8 est.	Yes	102.3 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	84.8 est.	Yes	100.8 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	84.8 est.	Yes	100.5 est.	No	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	79.5 est.	Yes	100.2 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	84.8 est.	Yes	21.7 est.	No	MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	84.8 est.	Yes	20.9 est.	No	MacBook 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 64GB	RTX 4070 Super 12GB
Catalog models that fit	44 of 69	18 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B)	—

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