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MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB for Local LLMs

The MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB has about 100% more memory bandwidth (546 vs 273 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 100% faster on the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB. The MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 47 vs 44 of 61 models (128 vs 64 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB but not the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $4,399 for the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 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 MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB posts the higher tok/s in 49 rows vs 2. Methodology.

Spec comparison

MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GBMac mini M4 Pro 64GB
VendorAppleApple
VRAM128 GB64 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5XLPDDR5X
Memory bandwidth546 GB/s273 GB/s
TDP160 W155 W
MSRP (list)$4,399$2,199
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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

ModelParams (B)MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB tok/sMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fitsMac mini M4 Pro 64GB tok/sMac mini M4 Pro 64GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8434.3 est.Yes217.2 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0347.5 est.Yes173.7 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2289.5 est.Yes144.8 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.0173.7 est.Yes86.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.5115.8 est.Yes57.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.5115.8 est.Yes57.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.2115.8 est.Yes57.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.5115.8 est.Yes57.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct81.3115.8 est.Yes57.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next79.7115.8 est.Yes57.9 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.2108.6 est.Yes54.3 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
MiniMax-M2.7228.798.1 est.No12.3 est.NoMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
gpt-oss-20b21.596.5 est.Yes48.3 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.891.4 est.Yes45.7 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.891.4 est.Yes45.7 est.YesMacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB

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 M4 Max 128GBMac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Catalog models that fit47 of 6144 of 61
Largest exclusive fitDeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)—

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