Mac mini, M6, 16GB vs Mac mini, M6, 32GB
Neither box holds Qwen3-32B at Q6_K. The largest quant that fits is Q5_K_M, on Mac mini, M6, 32GB.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −17GB
- −1GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $1,099 at Apple
- $1,499 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $69
- $47
- Memory
- 16GB unified memory
- 32GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 13GB
- 29GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 170GB/s
- 170GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $1,099 in 2d
- $1,499 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 fitTight
- 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 Q6_K. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.