Follow-up: M5 Max has higher bandwidth but compute falls well short of RTX Spark
draginol · x · 2026-10-19
Follow-up on the local-model benchmark: the author calls the result tricky — Apple's M5 Max has much higher memory bandwidth, but its compute isn't close to NVIDIA's RTX Spark. The takeaway from the comparison: bandwidth and compute split in opposite directions between the two chips, so the better buy depends on which your workload stresses.
Related event: RTX Spark vs M5 Max: Local Qwen 3.8 27B Inference Benchmark(2 posts)→
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