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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
36 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 56
Quality Score
8 vs 78

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1812
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec55.25.3
First chunk210 ms1624 ms
TTFT210 ms1.6 s
Load time4.8 s4.0 s
Memory usage0.9 GB7.9 GB
Memory %2%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong 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