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Apple Mac mini (M5 Pro, 64 GB)

Apple machine: Apple M5 Pro (15-core CPU, 16-core GPU), 64 GB memory, 48 GB for the GPU, 307 GB/s memory speed, about 4.7 tok/s on a 70B model (estimate).

77.8Score

  • #32 of 41 ranked
  • #8 of 10 Apple machines

Why this score

The score adds up these parts. Each part has a weight. A part counts as the average of its sources, pulled toward 80 when there are few sources.

  1. AI power

    50% weightcounts as 78.5

    Average of 2 sources: 77.7

  2. Experts

    30% weightcounts as 75.4

    Average of 4 sources: 74.2

  3. Users

    20% weightcounts as 80.0

    No sources found yet. No data yet. This part counts as 80.

Good: 4 reviews and buyer ratings.

80 is the field average. A part counts as 80 + (average − 80) × N ÷ (N + 1), where N is its number of sources. One source counts half of the gap from 80. No sources count as 80.

Price

€3099 at Apple Store Österreich · Austrian shop

Apple AT list price, M5 Pro 15-core CPU / 16-core GPU, 64 GB, 512 GB SSD, 2.5 GbE (18-core CPU / 20-core GPU with 64 GB, 512 GB is EUR 3,319). Geizhals Austria lowest offer for the same config is EUR 2,942.63 (computeruniverse.at and Cyberport.at, pre-order, delivery weeks out; Conrad.at EUR 3,169.00, about 7 weeks).

Prices checked 8 Oct 2026.

Specs

Chip
Apple M5 Pro (15-core CPU, 16-core GPU)
CPU
15 cores (5 Super + 10 Performance)
Memory
64 GB
GPU memory
48 GBmacOS default Metal GPU memory cap of about 75% of unified memory (community-documented in devnote-override-macos-metal-vram-cap and mlx-lm issue 883; Apple publishes no share). 75% x 64 GB = 48 GB. Raising the cap with sysctl iogpu.wired_limit_mb works but is unsupported by Apple, so it is not applied.
Memory speed
307 GB/s
FP16 TFLOPS
—
NPU
—
OS
macOS
Software
MLX
Ethernet
2.5 Gbit/s
Thunderbolt / USB4
TB5
QSFP port
No
Idle power
6 W
Load power
145 W
Noise
—
Volume
0.8 L
Weight
0.7 kg
SSD
512 GB
Release
2026-09

Measured

No measured results found yet.

Notes

A 0.8 L box with 48-64 GB and Thunderbolt 5, but 307 GB/s makes 70B-class dense models slow, and only the 64 GB model reaches 48 GB of default GPU memory. The price has risen sharply versus the M4 Pro generation.

Apple's spec page does not say whether 48/64 GB need the 20-core GPU; the AT buy page sells both with the 16-core GPU (EUR 2,659 / 3,099) and with the 18-core CPU / 20-core GPU for EUR 220 more. Memory bandwidth is given once (307 GB/s) for both GPU options. Power numbers are Apple's own, for the 64 GB / 8 TB config. Macworld 3.5/5 vs PCMag UK 4.5/5: Macworld marks down the price; Macworld's score comes from a search-result summary, PCMag UK's from the Geizhals review table, AppleInsider's from a search excerpt. The Verge reviewed the M6 and M5 Pro together; its 8/10 is the M5 Pro score in the page markup. An oMLX community speed run on the M5 Pro chip was dropped: it does not name the device. Prices are Apple AT list prices: the lower Geizhals offers in each price note were not linked in the research, and Geizhals could not be read again.

More reading:fstoppers.compcworld.comexpertreviews.co.uktrustedreviews.com

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