Mac mini, M6, 16GB vs Mac mini, M5 Pro, 24GB
Only Mac mini, M5 Pro, 24GB holds Gemma-3-27B at Q3_K_M. Mac mini, M6, 16GB is 3GB short. It costs $600 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Fits
- Headroom
- −3GB
- 5GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 15.1 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $1,099 at Apple
- $1,699 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $69
- $71
- Memory
- 16GB unified memory
- 24GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 13GB
- 21GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 170GB/s
- 307GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $1,099 in 47d
- $859 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 fitTight
- Gemma-3-27BWon't fitFits
- gpt-oss-20bTightFits
- 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 fitFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507Won't fitFits
- Phi-4TightFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3BWon't fitTight
- Qwen3.6-27BWon't fitFits
- 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 fitTight
- Gemma-4-12BFitsFits
Every model we track at Q3_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.