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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
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Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
36 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 66
Quality Score
8 vs 92

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec55.229.4
First chunk210 ms306 ms
TTFT210 ms4.8 s
Load time4.8 s5.3 s
Memory usage0.9 GB16.2 GB
Memory %2%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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