MAC MINI, M5 PRO, 15-CORE CPU, 16-CORE GPU
product: Mac mini, M5 Pro, 15-core CPU, 16-core GPU category: Macs brand: Apple memory: 24GB unified · 307 GB/s [2] notes: Starting M5 Pro configuration (15-core CPU / 16-core GPU). price: now: $1,699 (Apple, official list, 2026-11-13) [1] BUY NOW AT APPLE → since_first: FLAT SINCE SEP 22, 2026 first_record: 2026-09-22 (price in the paid export) change: 1d: — 7d: =0.0% 14d: =0.0% 30d: =0.0% 90d: new 180d: new availability: in stock
FLAT SINCE SEP 22, 2026 — now $1,699. BUY NOW AT APPLE →
PRICE TREND (shape since first record)
│ │ │ │ now $1,699 │████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ │████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 2026-09-22 2026-11-13 █ recorded price ░ gap between records · shape only; past prices are in the paid export
PRICE HISTORY (last 7 days)
8 older records back to Sep 22, 2026 (every price, date and source) are in the paid export (YAML / CSV).
PAIRS WELL WITH (add-ons, not price-tracked · all peripherals)
CalDigit TS5 Plus Thunderbolt 5 dock: why: One cable for displays, 10GbE and fast storage on a Mac mini or Mac Studio. buy: BUY ON AMAZON → Apple Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) Pro Cable, 1 m: why: Full-speed Thunderbolt 5 cable for a TB5 dock or drive. buy: BUY ON AMAZON → OWC Thunderbolt 10G Ethernet adapter: why: 10GbE to a NAS so model files load fast, on machines without built-in 10GbE. buy: BUY ON AMAZON → Logitech MX Keys S keyboard: why: Multi-device keyboard for a headless AI box plus a laptop. buy: BUY ON AMAZON →
CAN RUN — LOCAL MODELS THAT FIT
memory: 24GB unified · usable for models ≈ 18 GB (rule) bandwidth: 307 GB/s [2] largest_fit: gpt-oss 20B MXFP4 fits: 4 of 33 model files (excluding the Llama 2 7B reference) note: Configurable Macs are rated at the starting memory shown; more memory fits more.
| Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B (MoE) | Q8_0 | 128.5 GB | 141.4 GB [4] | no | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B (MoE) | Q4_0 | 72.1 GB | 79.4 GB [4] | no | no published run |
| gpt-oss 120B (MoE) | MXFP4 | 63.4 GB | 70.0 GB [5] | no | no published run |
| Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B (MoE) | Q8_0 | 114.5 GB | 127.6 GB [6] | no | no published run |
| Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B (MoE) | Q4_K_M | 65.4 GB | 73.5 GB [6] | no | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE) | BF16 | 148.2 GB | 163.1 GB [7] | no | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE) | Q8_0 | 78.9 GB | 86.8 GB [7] | no | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE) | Q4_K_XL | 50.2 GB | 55.3 GB [7] | no | no published run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | f16 | 141.1 GB | 157.9 GB [8] | no | no published run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Q8_0 | 75.0 GB | 85.2 GB [8] | no | no published run |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Q4_K_M | 42.5 GB | 49.5 GB [8] | no | no published run |
| OLMo 3.1 32B | bf16 | 64.5 GB | 72.3 GB [9] | no | no published run |
| OLMo 3.1 32B | Q8_0 | 34.3 GB | 39.0 GB [9] | no | no published run |
| OLMo 3.1 32B | Q4_K_M | 19.5 GB | 22.8 GB [9] | TIGHT | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) | BF16 | 63.2 GB | 69.5 GB [10] | no | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) | Q8_0 | 33.6 GB | 37.0 GB [10] | no | no published run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE) | Q4_0 | 18.9 GB | 20.8 GB [10] | TIGHT | no published run |
| Gemma 4 31B | BF16 | 61.4 GB | 69.1 GB [11] | no | no published run |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q8_0 | 32.6 GB | 37.4 GB [11] | no | no published run |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q4_K_M | 18.3 GB | 21.7 GB [11] | TIGHT | no published run |
| Granite 4.2 30B | bf16 | 58.6 GB | 66.6 GB [12] | no | no published run |
| Granite 4.2 30B | Q8_0 | 31.1 GB | 36.4 GB [12] | no | no published run |
| Granite 4.2 30B | Q4_K_M | 17.7 GB | 21.6 GB [12] | TIGHT | no published run |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) | BF16 | 50.5 GB | 55.9 GB [13] | no | no published run |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) | Q8_0 | 26.9 GB | 29.9 GB [13] | no | no published run |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE) | Q4_K_M | 16.9 GB | 19.0 GB [13] | TIGHT | no published run |
| gpt-oss 20B | MXFP4 | 12.1 GB | 13.5 GB [14] | YES | no published run |
| Phi-4 14B | F16 | 29.3 GB | 33.9 GB [15] | no | no published run |
| Phi-4 14B | Q8_0 | 15.6 GB | 18.8 GB [15] | TIGHT | no published run |
| Phi-4 14B | Q4_K_M | 8.9 GB | 11.5 GB [15] | YES | no published run |
| Gemma 4 12B | BF16 | 23.8 GB | 26.7 GB [16] | no | no published run |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | 12.7 GB | 14.4 GB [16] | YES | no published run |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q4_K_M | 7.1 GB | 8.3 GB [16] | YES | no published run |
| Llama 2 7B (llama.cpp reference benchmark model) | Q8_0 | 7.2 GB | 12.2 GB [18] | YES | 38.9 tok/s tg128 [17] |
| Llama 2 7B (llama.cpp reference benchmark model) | Q4_0 | 3.8 GB | 8.5 GB [18] | YES | 67.6 tok/s tg128 [19] |
WHERE TO BUY
official: BUY NOW → Apple retailers: not tracked yet (partner programs pending)
SOURCES
Current sources only. Every older price point and its source is in the paid export.
| # | what | source | fetched |
|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | Mac mini M5 Pro $1,699 on 2026-11-13 — Apple Store buy flow: variant m5pro-15-16 starting amount $1,699.00. | www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini | 2026-11-13 |
| [2] | Apple: M5 Pro 16-core GPU '307GB/s memory bandwidth' | www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/ | 2026-11-13 |
| [3] | Mac mini M5 Pro $1,699 on 2026-11-08 | web.archive.org/web/20261108041630/www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini | 2026-11-13 |
| [4] | Nemotron 3.5 Super 120B-A12B (MoE): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [5] | gpt-oss 120B (MoE): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/ggml-org/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [6] | Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B (MoE): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [7] | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [8] | Llama 3.3 70B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/bartowski/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [9] | OLMo 3.1 32B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/bartowski/allenai_Olmo-3.1-32B-Instruct-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [10] | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [11] | Gemma 4 31B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [12] | Granite 4.2 30B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [13] | Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [14] | gpt-oss 20B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/ggml-org/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [15] | Phi-4 14B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/unsloth/phi-4-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [16] | Gemma 4 12B: GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-12b-it-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [17] | M5 Pro 16-core GPU row | github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 | 2026-11-13 |
| [18] | Llama 2 7B (llama.cpp reference benchmark model): GGUF sizes + config.json (KV cache at 8k) | huggingface.co/TheBloke/Llama-2-7B-GGUF | 2026-11-13 |
| [19] | M5 Pro 16-core GPU, 307 GB/s row | github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 | 2026-11-13 |