MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs RTX 6000 Ada 48GB for Local LLMs
The RTX 6000 Ada 48GB has about 140% more memory bandwidth (960 vs 400 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 140% faster on the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. The MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 44 vs 41 of 69 models (64 vs 48 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB but not the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB: Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (72.7B). MSRP is $3,899 for the MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB vs $6,800 for the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. 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 (57 shared models), the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB posts the higher tok/s in 57 rows vs 0. Methodology.