Mac Mini M4 Pro (24GB)

$1,399

The M4 Pro with 24GB offers a massive bandwidth upgrade over the base M4, making it ideal for developers who need fast inference on 7B-30B models.

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Specifications

Memory 24GB UNIFIED
Memory Bandwidth 273 GB/s
GPU Cores 20
CPU Cores 14
TDP 30W
Max Model (Q4) 44B parameters
Max Model (Q8) 22B parameters
Performance Tier Mid
Category Apple Silicon

Performance Benchmarks

Llama 8B Q4 (tok/s) 55
SDXL 1024px (seconds) 10s
Flux 1024px (seconds) 30s

Pros

  • 2x memory bandwidth vs M4 base
  • Excellent tokens/sec for small-mid models
  • Pro-grade CPU for multitasking

Cons

  • 24GB limits larger model support
  • Significant price jump from M4 base
  • Not upgradeable

Compatible Models (Q4)

Models that fit in 24GB at Q4 quantization

Llama 3.2 8B Instruct 8B
6GB required
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct 3B
3.5GB required
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 7B
5.5GB required
Gemma 3 27B Instruct 27B
15.5GB required
Gemma 3 12B Instruct 12B
8GB required
DeepSeek Coder V2 Instruct 236B
12.5GB required
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 32B
18GB required
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct 7B
5.5GB required
CodeLlama 34B Instruct 34B
19GB required
StarCoder2 15B 15B
9.5GB required
DeepSeek Coder 6.7B Instruct 6.7B
5.35GB required
DeepSeek R1 671B
20.5GB required
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B 32B
18GB required
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B 7B
5.5GB required
QwQ 32B 32B
18GB required
Phi-4 14B
9GB required
FLUX.1 Schnell 12B
6GB required
FLUX.1 Dev 12B
6GB required
Stable Diffusion XL Base 1.0 3.5B
3GB required
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large 8B
5GB required

+ 8 more models

Compatible at Q8

22 models can run at Q8 quantization