Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for Local LLMs

The RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has about 5% more memory bandwidth (288 vs 273 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 5% faster on the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. The Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB fits more of the catalog at Q4/8K — 44 vs 25 of 61 models (64 vs 16 GB VRAM). Largest model that fits the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB but not the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $2,199 for the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB vs $499 for the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. 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 (44 shared models), the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 37 rows vs 7. Methodology.

Spec comparison

	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Vendor	Apple	NVIDIA
VRAM	64 GB	16 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5X	GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	273 GB/s	288 GB/s
TDP	155 W	165 W
MSRP (list)	$2,199	$499
Buy	Search Amazon (affiliate)	Search Amazon (affiliate)

MSRP is the launch list price, not live retail. Buy links are Amazon affiliate links — the price after you click is the live price.

Q4 / 8K head-to-head — top 15 of 44 shared models

Model	Params (B)	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB tok/s	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB fits	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB tok/s	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB fits	Winner
Qwen3-0.6B	0.8	217.2 est.	Yes	229.1 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
gemma-3-1b-it	1.0	173.7 est.	Yes	183.3 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	1.2	144.8 est.	Yes	152.7 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B	30.5	57.9 est.	Yes	132.3 est.	No	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	30.5	57.9 est.	Yes	132.3 est.	No	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507	30.5	57.9 est.	Yes	132.3 est.	No	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
GLM-4.7-Flash	31.2	57.9 est.	Yes	127.0 est.	No	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-1.7B	2.0	86.9 est.	Yes	91.6 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct	81.3	57.9 est.	Yes	20.8 est.	No	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Qwen3-Coder-Next	79.7	57.9 est.	Yes	21.6 est.	No	Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	3.2	54.3 est.	Yes	57.3 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
gpt-oss-20b	21.5	48.3 est.	Yes	50.9 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	8.0	21.7 est.	Yes	50.0 measured	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Phi-4-mini-instruct	3.8	45.7 est.	Yes	48.2 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Phi-4-mini-reasoning	3.8	45.7 est.	Yes	48.2 est.	Yes	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

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 64GB	RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Catalog models that fit	44 of 61	25 of 61
Largest exclusive fit	Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B)	—

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