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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

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Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
36 vs 59
Hardware Fit
100 vs 69
Quality Score
8 vs 54

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1814
RAM64 GB48 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec55.230.5
First chunk210 ms333 ms
TTFT210 ms30.0 s
Load time4.8 s9.8 s
Memory usage0.9 GB25.1 GB
Memory %2%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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