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Mac mini M4 32GB vs Tesla P4 8GB for Local LLMs

The Tesla P4 8GB has about 60% more memory bandwidth (192 vs 120 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 60% faster on the Tesla P4 8GB. The Mac mini M4 32GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 39 vs 16 of 69 models (32 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac mini M4 32GB but not the Tesla P4 8GB: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (36.0B). MSRP is $999 for the Mac mini M4 32GB vs $80 for the Tesla P4 8GB. MSRP is a launch list price, not live retail — Amazon prices move; click through for the current price. In the Q4/8K head-to-head below (39 shared models), the Tesla P4 8GB posts the higher tok/s in 24 rows vs 15. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Mac mini M4 32GBTesla P4 8GB
VendorAppleNVIDIA
VRAM32 GB8 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5XGDDR5
Memory bandwidth120 GB/s192 GB/s
TDP155 W75 W
MSRP (list)$999$80
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 39 shared models

ModelParams (B)Mac mini M4 32GB tok/sMac mini M4 32GB fitsTesla P4 8GB tok/sTesla P4 8GB fitsWinner
MiniCPM5-1B1.0870.7 est.Yes113.1 est.YesTesla P4 8GB
Qwen3.5-2B2.038.2 est.Yes61.1 est.YesTesla P4 8GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-layer-mix-bpw-3.8-mlx2.333.2 est.Yes53.1 est.YesTesla P4 8GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.241.3 measuredYes38.2 est.YesMac mini M4 32GB
gpt-oss-20b21.521.2 est.Yes33.6 est.NoTesla P4 8GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.019.1 est.Yes30.5 est.YesTesla P4 8GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.019.1 est.Yes30.5 est.YesTesla P4 8GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.019.1 est.Yes30.5 est.YesTesla P4 8GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.025.5 est.Yes17.0 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B34.725.5 est.Yes18.2 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.225.5 est.Yes21.0 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.525.5 est.Yes21.9 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF1630.025.5 est.Yes24.1 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB
Ornith-1.0-35B35.025.5 est.Yes17.0 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB
qwen35b-a3b-fable-sft-abliterated34.725.5 est.Yes17.3 est.NoMac mini M4 32GB

est. = bandwidth-based estimate; measured = curated real benchmark that overrides the estimate. Fits = weights + KV(8K) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM.

Fit coverage at Q4 / 8K

Mac mini M4 32GBTesla P4 8GB
Catalog models that fit39 of 6916 of 69
Largest exclusive fitQwen3.6-35B-A3B (36.0B)—

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