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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
36 vs 82
Hardware Fit
100 vs 81
Quality Score
8 vs 82

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1832
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec55.230.8
First chunk210 ms195 ms
TTFT210 ms195 ms
Load time4.8 s5.2 s
Memory usage0.9 GB18.8 GB
Memory %2%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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