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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 73
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
8 vs 62

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec55.2145.2
First chunk210 msN/A
TTFT210 ms1.4 s
Load time4.8 s0.7 s
Memory usage0.9 GB4.1 GB
Memory %2%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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