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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
36 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 85
Quality Score
8 vs 78

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1880
RAM64 GB252 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec55.265.1
First chunk210 ms289 ms
TTFT210 ms4.2 s
Load time4.8 s4.6 s
Memory usage0.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

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

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