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Rig report

Mac mini M6 (24GB)

24.0 GB memory · 170 GB/s · 45 of 64 tracked models fit

Best model it can run

Qwen3.8 27BTight / slow

Q2_K · 10.8 GB · 10–15 tok/s · capability 85/100

Fastest that fits: Ornith 1.0 35B (MoE) at 63–95 tok/s

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Compare against

vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (16GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro / Mac mini M4 (16GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti (16GB) →vs AMD RX 7900 XTX (24GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (24GB) →vs Mac mini M6 (16GB) →vs Mac mini M6 (32GB) →all comparisons →

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Estimates from device specs and model architectures, refined by community benchmarks. See the methodology.