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Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.

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SpecAlibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
Chip—Apple M4 Max
Context Window Tokens K128—
CPU Cores Options—14, 16
CPU Efficiency Cores—4
CPU Perf Cores 14core—10
CPU Perf Cores 16core—12
Display Brightness Nits HDR Peak—1,600
Display PPI—254
Display Resolution H—2,234
Display Resolution W—3,456
Display Size IN—16.2
Dual Card Count2—
Dual Card Vram GB24—
GPT Version5—
GPU Cores Options—32, 40
Memory Bandwidth GB S 14core—410
Memory Bandwidth GB S 16core—546
MSRP (USD)↓ better—3,499
Neural Engine Cores—16
Parameter Count B72—
Qwen Version3—
Qwen25 72B InstructQwen2.5-72B-Instruct—
Qwen25 Version2.5—
Qwen3 Largest Dense Checkpoint B32—
RTX 5090 Pairing Vram GB32—
SSD TB Options—1, 2, 4, 8
Status Checked2026-09-24—
Successor—MacBook Pro with M5 Pro / M5 Max
Successor 16in M5 MAX Price USD—3,899
Successor 16in M5 PRO Price USD—2,699
Successor M5 MAX Bandwidth GB S—614
Successor M5 MAX Memory MAX GB—128
Superseded ON—2026-03-03
Unified Memory GB Options—36, 48, 64, 128
Vram Required GB44—