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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
36 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
8 vs 74

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1812
RAM64 GB8 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec55.293.7
First chunk210 ms249 ms
TTFT210 ms249 ms
Load time4.8 s10.1 s
Memory usage0.9 GB2.9 GB
Memory %2%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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