M6 vs. M5 Pro Mac Mini Buyer's Guide

The same 5.0 by 5.0 inch aluminum enclosure in silver, unchanged since 2024 Neural Accelerators in every GPU core, a first for the ‌Mac mini‌ Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 via the N1 chip, another first for the ‌Mac mini‌ 2.5Gb Ethernet as standard, with a 10Gb Ethernet configuration option Two front USB-C ports and a headphone jack with high-impedance headphone support An HDMI port and native support for up to three external displays Genlock over USB-C for synchronizing a display with a camera such as the iPhone 17 Pro macOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI ‌Mac mini‌ (M6) ‌Mac mini‌ (M5 Pro) M6 chip M5 Pro chip Built with TSMC's 2nm (N2) process Built with TSMC's 3nm (N3P) process 12-core CPU 15-core or 18-core CPU Two super cores, four performance cores, and six efficiency cores Up to six super cores and 12 performance cores World's fastest single-threaded performance, according to Apple 12-core GPU 16-core or 20-core GPU Updated shader core architecture, Dynamic Caching, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing, with 50% higher geometry rates Enhanced shader core with third-generation ray tracing Dual 16-core Neural Engine, with up to 2x the peak compute of previous generations 16-core Neural Engine Up to 170GB/s memory bandwidth 307GB/s memory bandwidth 16GB, 24GB, or 32GB of unified memory 24GB, 48GB, or 64GB of unified memory 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB of storage 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB of storage Three Thunderbolt 4 ports Three Thunderbolt 5 ports Clustering of multiple ‌Mac mini‌ systems over Thunderbolt 5 1.5 pounds (0.67 kg) 1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Starts at $899 Starts at $1,699