Should I sell my RTX 5090 for a Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GB?

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I can get $5k for the 5090 and the Mac is $5499 before tax. The 5090 has a memory bandwidth of 1.8 TB/s while the M5 Ultra is 1.2 TB/s. Is this a sensible upgrade? Primary use is coding.

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2026-09-13 05:38 · r/LocalLLaMA
Should I sell my RTX 5090 for a Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GB?

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