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Mac mini (M4 Pro, 64 GB) — Local LLM Performance
Mac mini (M4 Pro, 64 GB) is a Mini PC running macOS, with 64 GB unified memory.
Specifications
- Memory for models
- 64 GB unified
- Memory bandwidth
- 273 GB/s
- Memory upgradeable
- No — soldered, decided at purchase
- Chip
- Apple M4 Pro
- Architecture
- ARM, 3nm TSMC
- Form factor
- Mini PC
- Operating system
- macOS
- Released
- 2024
- Llama 3.1 8B Q4_K_M
- 17–35 tok/s
Worth knowing before you buy
- M4 Pro memory bandwidth is half the M4 Max's, so large models that fit will still generate roughly half as fast.
Models on the Mac mini M4 Pro 64 GB
- Yi 1.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- VibeThinkerYes — comfortably
- Aya 3B (Tiny Aya)Yes — comfortably
- StarCoder 2Yes — comfortably
- SmolLM3Yes — comfortably
- SmolLM2Yes — comfortably
- Qwen3-CoderYes — comfortably
- Qwen3.8Yes — comfortably
- Qwen 3.6Yes
- Qwen 3.5Yes
- Qwen 3Yes — comfortably
- Qwen 2.5 VLYes — comfortably
- Qwen 2.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Poolside Laguna XS 2.1Yes
- Phi-4 MiniYes — comfortably
- Phi-4 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Phi 3.5 FamilyYes — comfortably
- OLMo 2Yes — comfortably
- North Mini CodeYes — comfortably
- Nex-N2Yes
- Nex-N2.5Yes
- Nemotron Cascade 2Yes
- Nemotron 70BYes — comfortably
- Nemotron 3 SuperYes
- Nemotron 3 Nano OmniYes — comfortably
- Mistral Small 4Yes
- Mistral Small 3.1Yes — comfortably
- Mistral Small 3.2Yes — comfortably
- Mistral FamilyYes — comfortably
- MinistralYes — comfortably
- Ministral 3Yes — comfortably
- MiniCPM-VYes — comfortably
- Magistral SmallYes — comfortably
- Llama 4Yes
- Llama 4.5Yes
- Llama 3.3Yes — comfortably
- Llama 3.2 VisionYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Llama 3.1 FamilyYes — comfortably
- LFM2.5Yes — comfortably
- InternLM 3Yes — comfortably
- IBM Granite 4.0Yes
- IBM Granite 4.2Yes — comfortably
- IBM Granite 4.1Yes — comfortably
- Granite 3.0Yes — comfortably
- GPT-OSSYes — comfortably
- GLM-4.7 / GLM-Z1Yes — comfortably
- GLM-5 / GLM-5.1No
- Gemma 4Yes — comfortably
- Gemma 3nYes — comfortably
- Gemma 3Yes — comfortably
- Gemma 2 FamilyYes — comfortably
- Falcon 3Yes — comfortably
- EXAONE 3.5Yes — comfortably
- DevstralYes — comfortably
- DeepSeek R1Yes — comfortably
- DeepSeek-OCRYes — comfortably
- Cosmos 3Yes
- Command R FamilyYes — comfortably
- Cogito v1Yes — comfortably
- CodestralYes — comfortably
- Bonsai 27BYes — comfortably
- BitNet b1.58Yes — comfortably
- Aya ExpanseYes — comfortably