This is weird. These options are very different from existing options. The M6 memory bandwidth only went up a little bit, which means the bigger AI compute is n

This is weird. These options are very different from existing options. The M6 memory bandwidth only went up a little bit, which means the bigger AI compute is not going to be worth much in practice. A base M6 should only be close to matching an M1 pro (and it's not even close to an M1 max) M1 pro: 16 GPU cores, 200GB/s memory bandwidth M6: 12 GPU cores, 170GB/s memory bandwidth Now the AI compute is over 5x more. So it should probably be possible to make models that perform better on the M6, but the same models just won't work. But the M5 pro mac mini will wipe the floor with the base M6, as most of its stats are double that of the M6 chip. Should be double the performance easily. Perhaps also relevant: the M5 pro mac mini should have very similar to double the performance to the Nvidia DGX Spark, assuming the model fits the memory. So that is probably the chip it should be compared to for a quick guess about benchmark results.