qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

36 vs 36

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

8 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4

Cores1810

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec55.210.3

First chunk210 ms27 ms

TTFT210 ms20.7 s

Load time4.8 s15.4 s

Memory usage0.9 GB1.0 GB

Memory %2%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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