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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
58 vs 36
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
48 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec24.455.2
First chunk294 ms210 ms
TTFT7.9 s210 ms
Load time3.7 s4.8 s
Memory usage13.8 GB0.9 GB
Memory %43%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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