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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
36 vs 79
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
8 vs 71

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1812
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec55.241.4
First chunk210 ms257 ms
TTFT210 ms257 ms
Load time4.8 s5.2 s
Memory usage0.9 GB9.0 GB
Memory %2%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

ministral-3:8b

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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