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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

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Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
36 vs 20
Hardware Fit
100 vs 37
Quality Score
8 vs 12

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:27b
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 Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec55.210.6
First chunk210 ms358 ms
TTFT210 ms13.7 s
Load time4.8 s10.8 s
Memory usage0.9 GB39.7 GB
Memory %2%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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