https://youtu.be/7MC8WV-6Z_E?feature=shared

Tldr: rtx 4080 is about 2x faster than the M3 pro. M3 Max results are unknown.

There were some results on an arstechina forum where people claimed the M3 Max was as fast as a 4070 desktop but verify the numbers for yourself!

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/the-m3-max-pro-performance-comparison-thread.1496840/page-2

“Max GPU: 3:26, this doesn’t seem right based on prior items in this thread does it? CPU was pegged at 1526%

Figured it out. Had to set GPU preferences to Metal, it was defaulted to none.

Classroom, 300 Samples Max GPU: 19.84 seconds (Optimized Kernels)

Junkshop, 400 Samples @2560 x 1440 (is Junkyard something different?) Max GPU: 50.59 seconds (Optimizing Kernels) Max GPU: 48.64 seconds (Optimized Kernels)

Ollama: 65.96 tokens/s 60.51 tokens/s 59.97 tokens/s 62.41 tokens/s”