MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB has about 23% more memory bandwidth (672 vs 546 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 23% faster on the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB. The MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 47 vs 25 of 61 models (128 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB but not the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB: DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B). MSRP is $4,399 for the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs $799 for the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB. 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 (44 shared models), the RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 38 rows vs 6. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Vendor	Apple	NVIDIA
VRAM	128 GB	16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	GDDR6X
Memory bandwidth	546 GB/s	672 GB/s
TDP	160 W	285 W
MSRP (list)	$4,399	$799
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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 44 shared models

Model	Params (B)	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB tok/s	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB tok/s	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	434.3 est.	Yes	534.5 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	347.5 est.	Yes	427.6 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	289.5 est.	Yes	356.4 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	115.8 est.	Yes	308.6 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	115.8 est.	Yes	308.6 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	115.8 est.	Yes	308.6 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	115.8 est.	Yes	296.3 est.	No	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	173.7 est.	Yes	213.8 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	108.6 est.	Yes	199.0 measured	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	96.5 est.	Yes	118.8 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	115.8 est.	Yes	48.6 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	115.8 est.	Yes	50.5 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	91.4 est.	Yes	112.5 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	91.4 est.	Yes	112.5 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
gemma-3-4b-it	4.3	89.1 est.	Yes	109.7 est.	Yes	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB

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 128GB	RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
Catalog models that fit	47 of 61	25 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	DeepSeek-V4-Flash (158.1B)	—

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