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Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB vs RTX 3070 8GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 3070 8GB has about 64% more memory bandwidth (448 vs 273 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 64% faster on the RTX 3070 8GB. The Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 44 vs 17 of 61 models (64 vs 8 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB but not the RTX 3070 8GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $2,199 for the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB vs $499 for the RTX 3070 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 (38 shared models), the RTX 3070 8GB posts the higher tok/s in 25 rows vs 13. Methodology.

Spec comparison

Mac mini M4 Pro 64GBRTX 3070 8GB
VendorAppleNVIDIA
VRAM64 GB8 GB
Memory typeLPDDR5XGDDR6
Memory bandwidth273 GB/s448 GB/s
TDP155 W220 W
MSRP (list)$2,199$499
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Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 38 shared models

ModelParams (B)Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB tok/sMac mini M4 Pro 64GB fitsRTX 3070 8GB tok/sRTX 3070 8GB fitsWinner
Qwen3-0.6B0.8217.2 est.Yes356.4 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
gemma-3-1b-it1.0173.7 est.Yes285.1 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct1.2144.8 est.Yes237.6 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Qwen3-1.7B2.086.9 est.Yes142.5 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct3.254.3 est.Yes89.1 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
gpt-oss-20b21.548.3 est.Yes78.9 est.NoRTX 3070 8GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct3.845.7 est.Yes75.0 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning3.845.7 est.Yes75.0 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
gemma-3-4b-it4.344.5 est.Yes73.1 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-25074.043.4 est.Yes71.3 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-25074.043.4 est.Yes71.3 est.YesRTX 3070 8GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B30.557.9 est.Yes51.4 est.NoMac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct30.557.9 est.Yes51.4 est.NoMac mini M4 Pro 64GB
GLM-4.7-Flash31.257.9 est.Yes49.4 est.NoMac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-250730.557.9 est.Yes51.4 est.NoMac mini M4 Pro 64GB

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 Pro 64GBRTX 3070 8GB
Catalog models that fit44 of 6117 of 61
Largest exclusive fitQwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B)—

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