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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
36 vs 20
Hardware Fit
100 vs 34
Quality Score
8 vs 14

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3.6:27b
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 qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec55.210.6
First chunk210 ms1344 ms
TTFT210 ms30.0 s
Load time4.8 s0.2 s
Memory usage0.9 GB18.1 GB
Memory %2%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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