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Rig report

Mac mini M6 (32GB)

32.0 GB memory · 170 GB/s · 47 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: Kimi Linear 48B-A3B (MoE) at 65–97 tok/s

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Compare against

vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (24GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro / Mac mini M4 (16GB) →vs MacBook Air / Mac mini M4 (24GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 5080 (16GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (16GB) →vs MacBook Air/Pro M5 (32GB) →vs Mac mini M6 (24GB) →vs NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB) →all comparisons →

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