Machines / Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB)

What LLMs can the Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) run?

The Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) has 64 GB of memory (about 48 GB usable by a model) and 307 GB/s of bandwidth. The largest model it runs at a comfortable 10+ tokens/sec is mixtral 8X7B.

64 GBmemory
307 GB/sbandwidth

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Fast (20+ tok/s)

Qwen3.5 0.8B 120+DeepSeek-R1 1.5B 120+Qwen 1.8B 120+Llama 3.2 1B 120+Qwen 3 1.7B 120+Granite 3.1 moe 1B 120+minicpm v4.6 1B 120+Gemma 2 2B 120+codeGemma 2B 120+Gemma 2B 120+smollm 2 1.7B 120+starCoder 2 3B 120+falcon 3 1B 120+Qwen2.5 3B 120+Qwen2.5 Coder 3B 120+Qwen3.5 2B 120+Qwen 3-VL 2B 120+Llama 3.2 3B 120+orca mini 3B 120+Granite 3.1 moe 3B 120+falcon 3 3B 120+lfm 2.5 8B (A1B) 120+Granite 4.1 3B 117Granite 4.2 3B 112Phi 3 3.8B 112Qwen 4B 107Qwen 3 4B 95Qwen2.5-VL 3B 77Gemma 3 4B 74Qwen 3-VL 4B 74translateGemma 4B 74Qwen3.5 4B 72Qwen 3 30B (A3B) 72Qwen3 Coder 30B (A3B) 72Qwen 3-VL 30B (A3B) 68Llama 2 7B 65Code Llama 7B 65DeepSeek Coder 6.7B 65Llama 2 uncensored 7B 65Qwen3.5 35B (A3B) 64Qwen3.6 35B (A3B) 64orca mini 7B 60gpt-oss 20B 60Mistral 7B 56Qwen2 7B 56starCoder 2 7B 56OLMo 2 7B 55Nemotron 3.5 lightning 30B (A3B) 55falcon 3 7B 53DeepSeek-R1 7B 52Qwen2.5 7B 52Llama 3 8B 52Qwen2.5 Coder 7B 52LLaVA 7B 52Llama 3.1 8B 50Qwen 7B 50dolPhin 3 8B 50Gemma 7B 49codeGemma 7B 49Gemma 4 26B (A4B) 49DeepSeek-R1 8B 47Qwen 3 8B 47Granite 4.2 8B 46Granite 4.1 8B 46Gemma 2 9B 46minicpm v 8B 45LLaVA Llama3 8B 45ornith 9B 44Gemma 3n E2B 44Qwen2.5-VL 7B 41minicpm v4.5 8B 40Qwen 3-VL 8B 40falcon 3 10B 39ornith 1.5 9B 37Qwen3.5 9B 37Mistral nemo 12B 35Gemma 4 E2B 34Llama 2 13B 33Code Llama 13B 33Gemma 3n E4B 33Gemma 4 12B 32Llama 3.2 Vision 11B 32Phi 3 14B 31orca mini 13B 31LLaVA 13B 31Gemma 3 12B 30translateGemma 12B 30Qwen 14B 30OLMo 2 13B 29DeepSeek Coder v2 16B 28DeepSeek-R1 14B 27Qwen2.5 14B 27Qwen2.5 Coder 14B 27Phi 4 14B 27Qwen 3 14B 26Gemma 4 E4B 26starCoder 2 15B 25mixtral 8X7B 20

Comfortable (10-20 tok/s)

Slow but usable (5-10 tok/s)

Too slow (<5 tok/s)

Won't fit