Mac Studio M4 Max vs Mac Mini M4 Pro for Local AI in 2026: Is the $600 Upgrade to 546 GB/s Worth It?
This article was originally published on runaihome.com
TL;DR: The Mac Studio M4 Max roughly doubles token generation speed on every model size, at twice the memory bandwidth, for a $600 premium over the Mac Mini M4 Pro. For 70B models, that gap is the difference between 14 tok/s (usable but slow) and 28 tok/s (genuinely comfortable). For 7B and 14B models, both machines run fast enough that the gap barely matters in practice.
Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB
Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB
Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
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