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qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
36 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
8 vs 64

Hardware

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3-vl:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1880
RAM64 GB252 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen36-distill-apex qwen3-vl:8b
Tokens/sec55.268.2
First chunk210 ms285 ms
TTFT210 ms2.0 s
Load time4.8 s42.4 s
Memory usage0.9 GB7.1 GB
Memory %2%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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