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qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
83 vs 36
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec91.255.2
First chunk150 ms210 ms
TTFT150 ms210 ms
Load time5.3 s4.8 s
Memory usage42.5 GB0.9 GB
Memory %44%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen36-distill-apex

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

Quality

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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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