Mac mini, M6, 24GB vs Mac mini, M6, 32GB
Neither box holds DeepSeek-V3 at Q8_0, at any quant we compute. This pair is the wrong pair for this model.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −694GB
- −686GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $1,299 at Apple
- $1,499 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $54
- $47
- Memory
- 24GB unified memory
- 32GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 21GB
- 29GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 170GB/s
- 170GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $1,299 in 3d
- $1,499 in 3d
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
- 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 fitTight
- Phi-4TightFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
Every model we track at Q8_0. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.