Mac mini, M6, 16GB vs Mac mini, M5 Pro, 24GB
Neither box holds Gemma-3-27B at Q5_K_M. The largest quant that fits is Q4_K_M, on Mac mini, M5 Pro, 24GB.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −9GB
- −1GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- 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 2d
- $1,699 in 2d
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 fitWon't fit
- gpt-oss-20bWon't fitFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
Every model we track at Q5_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.