Compare Local AI Computers

Side‑by‑side overview of popular local AI machines. We only list benchmarks when they’re linked to public sources.

System Type Price Memory GPU / SoC Architecture Form Factor Benchmarks
Apple M5 Max (128GB) Laptop TBD 128 GB Unified Apple M5 Max Apple Silicon 14–16" laptop Apple MLX research benchmarks · LocalLLaMA M5 Max benchmarks
Apple M4 Max (128GB) Laptop TBD 128 GB Unified Apple M4 Max Apple Silicon 14–16" laptop Apple MLX research (M4 vs M5 comparison)
Apple M3 Ultra (Mac Studio) Desktop workstation TBD 192 GB Unified Apple M3 Ultra Apple Silicon Mac Studio MacStories MLX benchmarks (Qwen3-235B-A22B) · LocalLLaMA M3 Ultra benchmarks
NVIDIA DGX Spark Desktop workstation ~$3,000 (community-reported) 128 GB Unified NVIDIA Blackwell (integrated) Blackwell Small desktop NVIDIA blog (official benchmarks) · ServeTheHome review · StorageReview benchmarks · Signal65 first look · LocalLLaMA community benchmarks
RTX 5090 Workstation (expected) Desktop workstation TBD TBD GB GDDR7 NVIDIA RTX 5090 Blackwell ATX desktop
RTX 4090 Workstation (24GB) Desktop workstation TBD 24 GB GDDR6X NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ada Lovelace ATX desktop LLM inference benchmarks (llama.cpp) · Open LLM Benchmarks (dual 4090)

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