Mac mini, M6, 32GB vs GeForce RTX 5090, 32GB
Only GeForce RTX 5090, 32GB holds Qwen3-32B at Q6_K. Mac mini, M6, 32GB is 1GB short. It costs $1,500.99 more, and a box that cannot load the model is not a saving.
- Fit
- Won't fit
- Tight
- Headroom
- −1GB
- 1GB
- Est. speed
- —
- 44.4 tok/s
- 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 fitTight
- Gemma-3-27BTightFits
- gpt-oss-20bFitsFits
- Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128EWon't fitWon't fit
- Llama-4-BehemothWon't fitWon't fit
Every model we track at Q6_K. The rows where the two boxes agree are dimmed, because they are not what you are choosing between.