Mac mini, M6, 32GB vs Mac mini, M5 Pro, 24GB
Neither box holds Gemma-3-27B at BF16. The largest quant that fits is Q6_K, on Mac mini, M6, 32GB.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −28GB
- −36GB
- Est. speed
- —
- —
- Cheapest today
- $1,499 at Apple
- $1,699 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $47
- $71
- Memory
- 32GB unified memory
- 24GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 29GB
- 21GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 170GB/s
- 307GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $1,499 in 3d
- $1,519 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 fitWon't fit
- 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 fitWon't fit
- Phi-4Won't fitWon't fit
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsTight
Every model we track at BF16. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.