Coding with AI / Mac mini M4 Pro

Mac mini M4 Pro

Memory: 24 / 48 / 64 GB. Memory bandwidth: 273 GB/s. Generation speed is bound by the chip's bandwidth; memory decides which models fit.

How to run

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B smart

• Score: 51.5% (Terminal-Bench 2), source
• Speed: 41 tok/s (estimate: bandwidth-bound approximation)
• Conditions: engine llama.cpp, quant Q4_K_M, context 128
• Min memory: 24 GB
• Command: llama-server -m qwen3.6-35b-a3b-Q4_K_M.gguf

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Ceiling timeline

The strongest model fitting Mac mini M4 Pro (64 GB) at its release date, by SWE-bench Verified.

1. 2025-08-05 gpt-oss-20b 60.7%
2. 2025-08-05 gpt-oss-120b 62.4%
3. 2025-12-09 Devstral Small 2 68%
4. 2026-02-04 Qwen3-Coder-Next 70.6%
5. 2026-04-01 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 73.4%