Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB vs Tesla P4 8GB for Local LLMs

The Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB has about 327% more memory bandwidth (819 vs 192 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 327% faster on the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB. The Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 51 vs 16 of 69 models (96 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB but not the Tesla P4 8GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $3,999 for the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB 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 M3 Ultra 96GB posts the higher tok/s in 39 rows vs 0. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	Tesla P4 8GB
Vendor	Apple	NVIDIA
VRAM	96 GB	8 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5	GDDR5
Memory bandwidth	819 GB/s	192 GB/s
TDP	480 W	75 W
MSRP (list)	$3,999	$80
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 39 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB tok/s	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB fits	Tesla P4 8GB tok/s	Tesla P4 8GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	482.6 est.	Yes	113.1 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	260.6 est.	Yes	61.1 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	226.6 est.	Yes	53.1 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	173.7 est.	Yes	17.0 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	173.7 est.	Yes	18.2 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	173.7 est.	Yes	21.0 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	173.7 est.	Yes	21.9 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	173.7 est.	Yes	24.1 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	173.7 est.	Yes	17.0 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	173.7 est.	Yes	17.3 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	154.6 measured	Yes	38.2 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	137.2 est.	Yes	23.9 est.	No	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	4.0	130.3 est.	Yes	30.5 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16	4.0	130.3 est.	Yes	30.5 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507	4.0	130.3 est.	Yes	30.5 est.	Yes	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB

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 M3 Ultra 96GB	Tesla P4 8GB
Catalog models that fit	51 of 69	16 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)	—

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