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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
36 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 34
Quality Score
8 vs 79

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec55.23.8
First chunk210 ms1637 ms
TTFT210 ms1.6 s
Load time4.8 s17.0 s
Memory usage0.9 GB21.3 GB
Memory %2%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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