Qwen 3.6 Speed on 3090 vs. Apple Silicon

How is performance between local Qwen on Apple Silicon vs. a 3090? The first layer that gets offloaded to RAM results in a fixed-cost memory copy back-and-forth to RAM. The cliff from 0->1 layers in RAM is expected. Dashed blue and orange lines are the performance on my Mac Studio (M3 Ultra). What does surprise me a bit? The stability of the results. Each point is 6 runs. The latency and…