Mac mini, M5 Pro, 24GB vs Mac mini, M5 Pro, 64GB
Neither box holds Qwen3-32B at BF16. The largest quant that fits is Q8_0, on Mac mini, M5 Pro, 64GB.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −46GB
- −8GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $1,699 at Apple
- $2,899 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $71
- $45
- Memory
- 24GB unified memory
- 64GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 21GB
- 59GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 307GB/s
- 307GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $854 in 47d
- $2,699 in 47d
Fit, headroom and speed are computed from each vendor’s published bandwidth and the model’s own size at 8K context. Prices are the cheapest listing we could read on each seller’s page. The arithmetic is here.
Where they actually differ
- Qwen3-235B-A22BWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V3Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-3.3-70BWon't fitWon't fit
- gpt-oss-120bWon't fitWon't fit
- Mistral-Large-2411Won't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-Scout-17B-16EWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-32BWon't fitWon't fit
- Gemma-3-27BWon't fitTight
- gpt-oss-20bWon't fitFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-InstructWon't fitWon't fit
- Kimi-K2-InstructWon't fitWon't fit
- GLM-4.6Won't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-R1Won't fitWon't fit
- MiniMax-M2Won't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-30B-A3BWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507Won't fitFits
- Phi-4Won't fitFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructTightFits
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3BWon't fitWon't fit
- Qwen3.6-27BWon't fitTight
- Qwen3-Coder-NextWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V4-FlashWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V4-ProWon't fitWon't fit
- Gemma-4-26B-A4BWon't fitFits
- Gemma-4-31BWon't fitWon't fit
- Gemma-4-12BWon't fitFits
Every model we track at BF16. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.