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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 34
Hardware Fit
100 vs 58
Quality Score
8 vs 23

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:latest
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:latest
Tokens/sec55.213.3
First chunk210 ms438 ms
TTFT210 ms19.8 s
Load time4.8 s0.2 s
Memory usage0.9 GB8.0 GB
Memory %2%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
25/30

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:latest

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest