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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
36 vs 46
Hardware Fit
100 vs 61
Quality Score
8 vs 40

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores186
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec55.27.8
First chunk210 ms1625 ms
TTFT210 ms1.6 s
Load time4.8 s21.8 s
Memory usage0.9 GB5.2 GB
Memory %2%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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