Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB vs RTX 5070 Ti 16GB for Local LLMs
The RTX 5070 Ti 16GB has about 228% more memory bandwidth (896 vs 273 GB/s). Batch-1 decode tracks bandwidth closely, so a model that fits both cards should decode roughly 228% faster on the RTX 5070 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 5070 Ti 16GB: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (81.3B). MSRP is $2,199 for the Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB vs $749 for the RTX 5070 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 5070 Ti 16GB posts the higher tok/s in 40 rows vs 4. Methodology.