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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
36 vs 87
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
8 vs 88

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:35b
MachineMacBook ProGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1816
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:35b
Tokens/sec55.245.7
First chunk210 ms393 ms
TTFT210 ms393 ms
Load time4.8 s22.9 s
Memory usage0.9 GB21.6 GB
Memory %2%68%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:35b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
16/30

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

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest