Mac mini, M6, 32GB vs GeForce RTX 5090, 32GB
Neither box holds Mistral-Large-2411 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
- −106GB
- −104GB
- 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
- 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-20bFitsFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
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.