MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs V100 16GB PCIe for Local LLMs

The V100 16GB PCIe has about 65% more memory bandwidth (900 vs 546 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 65% faster on the V100 16GB PCIe. The MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 57 vs 25 of 73 models (128 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB but not the V100 16GB PCIe: Step-3.5-Flash (196.8B). MSRP is $4,399 for the MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB vs $8,000 for the V100 16GB PCIe. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: V100 16GB PCIe (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (49 shared models), the V100 16GB PCIe posts the higher tok/s in 41 rows vs 8. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB	V100 16GB PCIe
Vendor	Apple	NVIDIA
VRAM	128 GB	16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	HBM2
Memory bandwidth	546 GB/s	900 GB/s
TDP	160 W	250 W
MSRP (list)	$4,399	$8,000
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 49 shared models

Model	Params (B)	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB tok/s	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB fits	V100 16GB PCIe tok/s	V100 16GB PCIe fits	Winner
MiniCPM5-1B	1.08	712.9 est.	Yes	895.6 est.	Yes	V100 16GB PCIe
Qwen3.5-2B	2.0	385.0 est.	Yes	483.6 est.	Yes	V100 16GB PCIe
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16	30.0	256.7 est.	Yes	434.0 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx	2.3	334.8 est.	Yes	420.5 est.	Yes	V100 16GB PCIe
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	256.7 est.	Yes	405.4 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	34.7	256.7 est.	Yes	339.8 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
Ornith-1.0-35B	35.0	256.7 est.	Yes	334.2 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated	34.7	256.7 est.	Yes	325.2 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	36.0	256.7 est.	Yes	316.9 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	256.7 est.	Yes	313.0 est.	No	V100 16GB PCIe
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	240.6 est.	Yes	302.3 est.	Yes	V100 16GB PCIe
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	213.9 est.	Yes	268.7 est.	Yes	V100 16GB PCIe
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	256.7 est.	Yes	67.0 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	256.7 est.	Yes	64.5 est.	No	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	25.2	202.6 est.	Yes	254.5 est.	Yes	V100 16GB PCIe

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	V100 16GB PCIe
Catalog models that fit	57 of 73	25 of 73
Largest exclusive fit	Step-3.5-Flash (196.8B)	—

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