Rig report
MacBook Pro / Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB)
48.0 GB memory · 307 GB/s · 49 of 64 tracked models fit
Best model it can run
Qwen3.8 27BRuns great
Q3_K_M · 13.4 GB · 14–21 tok/s · capability 85/100
Fastest that fits: Qwen3 Coder Next 80B-A3B (MoE) at 86–129 tok/s
Compare against
vs MacBook Pro / Mac mini M4 Pro (48GB) →vs MacBook Pro / Mac Studio M5 Max (36GB) →vs MacBook Pro / Mac mini M4 Pro (24GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (64GB) →vs MacBook Pro / Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) →vs MacBook Pro / Mac mini M5 Pro (24GB) →vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” (128GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24GB) →all comparisons →
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Estimates from device specs and model architectures, refined by community benchmarks. See the methodology.