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Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB vs Tesla P4 8GB for Local LLMs

The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB has about 317% more memory bandwidth (800 vs 192 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 317% faster on the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB. The Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 57 vs 16 of 69 models (192 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB but not the Tesla P4 8GB: MiMo-V2.5 (310.0B). MSRP is $6,999 for the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB vs $80 for the Tesla P4 8GB. 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 (39 shared models), the Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GBTesla P4 8GB
VendorAppleNVIDIA
VRAM192 GB8 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5GDDR5
Memory bandwidth800 GB/s192 GB/s
TDP370 W75 W
MSRP (list)$6,999$80
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 39 shared models

ModelParams (B)Mac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB tok/sMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB fitsTesla P4 8GB tok/sTesla P4 8GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.08471.4 est.Yes113.1 est.YesMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.0254.5 est.Yes61.1 est.YesMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.3221.3 est.Yes53.1 est.YesMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.0169.7 est.Yes17.0 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.7169.7 est.Yes18.2 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2169.7 est.Yes21.0 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5169.7 est.Yes21.9 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.0169.7 est.Yes24.1 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.0169.7 est.Yes17.0 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.7169.7 est.Yes17.3 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2159.1 est.Yes38.2 est.YesMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it25.2134.0 est.Yes23.9 est.NoMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.0127.3 est.Yes30.5 est.YesMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.0127.3 est.Yes30.5 est.YesMac Studio M2 Ultra 192GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.0127.3 est.Yes30.5 est.YesMac 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 192GBTesla P4 8GB
Catalog models that fit57 of 6916 of 69
Largest exclusive fitMiMo-V2.5 (310.0B)—

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