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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
36 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
8 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec55.299.6
First chunk210 ms18 ms
TTFT210 ms1.6 s
Load time4.8 s4.8 s
Memory usage0.9 GB0.3 GB
Memory %2%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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