H100 80GB SXM5 vs Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB for Local LLMs
The H100 80GB SXM5 has about 1127% more memory bandwidth (3,350 vs 273 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 1127% faster on the H100 80GB SXM5. The H100 80GB SXM5 fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 46 vs 44 of 61 models (80 vs 64 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the H100 80GB SXM5 but not the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB: gpt-oss-120b (120.4B). MSRP is $30,000 for the H100 80GB SXM5 vs $2,199 for the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. Not retail-shoppable: H100 80GB SXM5 (datacenter-class; cloud rental is the realistic way to use it). In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (51 shared models), the H100 80GB SXM5 posts the higher tok/s in 51 rows vs 0. Methodology.