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gpus/apple/m2-max-96gb

M2 Max 96GB

Released 2023-01-17 · Street $3,500
vram
96 GB
unified mem
bandwidth
400
GB/s
models fit
18
top · FP16
power
78 W
low

Spec sheet · top pick

Hardware spec
M2 Max 96GB
Apple · Apple Silicon · M2
vram
96 GB unified
bandwidth
400 GB/s
tdp
78 W
released
2023-01-17
msrp
$4,099
street
~$3,500
★ Sweet spot for this card
gemma 3 27b
FP16 · GGUF · 57.2 GB
bench50.6 · conf A
vram57.2 / 96 GB
speed7 tok/s
Best benchmark per GB of VRAM in your tier. FP16wastes <3% quality vs FP16, leaves headroom for 32k context.
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Top 10 models on this GPU

#modelquantvramtok/sbench ↓fit
01gemma 3 27bFP1657.2 GB750.6Great
02Qwen2.5 Coder 32BFP1667.7 GB648.8Great
03Gemma 2 9BFP1619.4 GB2135.0Great
04Gemma 2 27BFP1657.2 GB746.2Great
05deepseek r1 distill llama 70bQ8_074 GB551.7Great
06Qwen3 32BFP1667.7 GB640.0Great
07Gemma 3 12BFP1625.7 GB1631.3Great
08deepseek r1 distill qwen 32bFP1667.7 GB633.3Great
09Gemma 3 4BFP168.9 GB4515.1Great
10Mixtral 8x22b v0.1Q5_K_M93 GB420.0Tight
Showing 10 of 18 models that fit · see full ranked list →

Upgrade options

★ Best value
+H200 SXM5
141 GB · ~$45,000 · +$41,500 over M2 Max 96GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See H200 SXM5
Bigger tier
+M1 Ultra 128GB
128 GB · ~$4,000 · +$500 over M2 Max 96GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See M1 Ultra 128GB
Premium tier
+M2 Ultra 128GB
128 GB · ~$5,200 · +$1,700 over M2 Max 96GB
Unlocks +1 models not in current rank
See M2 Ultra 128GB

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