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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

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
36 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
8 vs 75

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1820
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec55.2108.3
First chunk210 ms169 ms
TTFT210 ms169 ms
Load time4.8 s1.7 s
Memory usage0.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %2%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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