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Mac mini, M6, 32GB vs GeForce RTX 5090, 32GB

Neither box holds Llama-3.3-70B at Q4_K_M, at any quant we compute. This pair is the wrong pair for this model.

For Llama-3.3-70B at Q4_K_MMac mini 32GBRTX 5090 32GB
Fit
Won't fit
Won't fit
Headroom
17GB
15GB
Est. speed
Cheapest today
$1,499 at Apple
$2,999.99 at Best Buy
Per GB of memory
$47
$94
Memory
32GB unified memory
32GB GDDR7 memory
Usable for a model
29GB
31GB
Memory bandwidth
170GB/s
1.8TB/s
Storage
512GB
Lowest recorded
$1,499 in 2d
$2,999 in 1d

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

Every model we track at Q4_K_M. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.