MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs Titan Xp 12GB for Local LLMs

The Titan Xp 12GB has about 0% more memory bandwidth (548 vs 546 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 0% faster on the Titan Xp 12GB. The MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 53 vs 18 of 69 models (128 vs 12 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB but not the Titan Xp 12GB: Step-3.5-Flash (196.8B). MSRP is $4,399 for the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs $1,200 for the Titan Xp 12GB. 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 (41 shared models), the Titan Xp 12GB posts the higher tok/s in 31 rows vs 10. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB	Titan Xp 12GB
Vendor	Apple	NVIDIA
VRAM	128 GB	12 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	GDDR5X
Memory bandwidth	546 GB/s	548 GB/s
TDP	160 W	250 W
MSRP (list)	$4,399	$1,200
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 41 shared models

Model	Params (B)	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB tok/s	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits	Titan Xp 12GB tok/s	Titan Xp 12GB fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	321.7 est.	Yes	322.9 est.	Yes	Titan Xp 12GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	96.5 est.	Yes	216.2 est.	No	Titan Xp 12GB
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	173.7 est.	Yes	174.4 est.	Yes	Titan Xp 12GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	115.8 est.	Yes	155.0 est.	No	Titan Xp 12GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	91.4 est.	Yes	154.1 est.	No	Titan Xp 12GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	151.1 est.	Yes	151.6 est.	Yes	Titan Xp 12GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	115.8 est.	Yes	141.0 est.	No	Titan Xp 12GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	115.8 est.	Yes	135.3 est.	No	Titan Xp 12GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	115.8 est.	Yes	117.2 est.	No	Titan Xp 12GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	115.8 est.	Yes	109.2 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	115.8 est.	Yes	23.6 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	115.8 est.	Yes	109.6 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	115.8 est.	Yes	22.7 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	115.8 est.	Yes	111.3 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	108.6 est.	Yes	109.0 est.	Yes	Titan Xp 12GB

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	Titan Xp 12GB
Catalog models that fit	53 of 69	18 of 69
Largest exclusive fit	Step-3.5-Flash (196.8B)	—

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