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Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GB vs M5 Max 128GB for local LLMs?

I'm about to buy a Mac Studio mainly for running LLMs locally and I'm stuck between two configs: M5 Ultra (30/64) with 96GB : 1.2 TB/s bandwidth, roughly 1.7x faster generation and much faster prefill M5 Max (40-core GPU) with 128GB : 614 GB/s, but 32GB more memory and a bit cheaper The models I ca…

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  1. 2026-09-26 06:24 · r/LocalLLM
    Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256gb
  2. 2026-09-24 15:55 · r/LocalLLM
    Hardware advice: RTX 5090 vs Mac Studio M5 Ultra for MSP agentic workloads + client demos
  3. 2026-09-24 13:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GB vs M5 Max 128GB for local LLMs?

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