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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
36 vs 82
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
8 vs 83

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec55.254.7
First chunk210 ms32 ms
TTFT210 ms30.0 s
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB30.3 GB
Memory %2%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest