Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB vs Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB for Local LLMs

The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB has about 193% more memory bandwidth (800 vs 273 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 193% faster on the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB. The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 50 vs 44 of 61 models (192 vs 64 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB but not the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB: Qwen3-235B-A22B (235.1B). MSRP is $6,999 for the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB vs $2,199 for the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB. 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 Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB posts the higher tok/s in 50 rows vs 1. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Vendor	Apple	Apple
VRAM	192 GB	64 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5	LPDDR5X
Memory bandwidth	800 GB/s	273 GB/s
TDP	370 W	155 W
MSRP (list)	$6,999	$2,199
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 51 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB tok/s	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB fits	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB tok/s	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	636.4 est.	Yes	217.2 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	509.1 est.	Yes	173.7 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	424.2 est.	Yes	144.8 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	254.5 est.	Yes	86.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	169.7 est.	Yes	57.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	169.7 est.	Yes	57.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	169.7 est.	Yes	57.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	169.7 est.	Yes	57.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	169.7 est.	Yes	57.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	169.7 est.	Yes	57.9 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	159.1 est.	Yes	54.3 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	134.0 est.	Yes	45.7 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	134.0 est.	Yes	45.7 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	130.5 est.	Yes	44.5 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	127.3 est.	Yes	43.4 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB

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

	Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Catalog models that fit	50 of 61	44 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	Qwen3-235B-A22B (235.1B)	—

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