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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
36 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
8 vs 58

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1810
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec55.242.2
First chunk210 ms201 ms
TTFT210 ms4.4 s
Load time4.8 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.9 GB3.8 GB
Memory %2%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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