Mac mini, M6, 32GB vs GeForce RTX 5090, 32GB
Neither box holds Qwen3-235B-A22B at Q4_K_M, at any quant we compute. This pair is the wrong pair for this model.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Won't fit
- Headroom
- −116GB
- −114GB
- 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 47d
- $2,999 in 46d
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
- Qwen3-32BFitsFits
- Gemma-3-27BFitsFits
- 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-A3BFitsFits
- Qwen3-4BFitsFits
- Devstral-Small-2507FitsFits
- Phi-4FitsFits
- Gemma-3n-E4BFitsFits
- Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructFitsFits
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3BFitsFits
- Qwen3.6-27BFitsFits
- Qwen3-Coder-NextWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V4-FlashWon't fitWon't fit
- DeepSeek-V4-ProWon't fitWon't fit
- Gemma-4-26B-A4BFitsFits
- Gemma-4-31BFitsFits
- Gemma-4-12BFitsFits
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.