Mac mini, M6, 32GB vs Mac mini, M5 Pro, 48GB
Only Mac mini, M5 Pro, 48GB holds Gemma-3-27B at Q8_0. Mac mini, M6, 32GB is 3GB short. It costs $1,000 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Fits
- Headroom
- −3GB
- 12GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 7.0 tok/s
- Cheapest today
- $1,499 at Apple
- $2,499 at Apple
- Per GB of memory
- $47
- $52
- Memory
- 32GB unified memory
- 48GB unified memory
- Usable for a model
- 29GB
- 44GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 170GB/s
- 307GB/s
- Storage
- 512GB
- 512GB
- Lowest recorded
- $1,499 in 47d
- $2,499 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 fitFits
- Gemma-3-27BWon't fitFits
- gpt-oss-20bFitsFits
- 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-2507TightFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3BWon't fitFits
- 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-A4BTightFits
- Gemma-4-31BWon't fitFits
- Gemma-4-12BFitsFits
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.