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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
72 vs 36
Hardware Fit
92 vs 100
Quality Score
63 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen36-distill-apex
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec120.755.2
First chunk93 ms210 ms
TTFT1.5 s210 ms
Load time2.5 s4.8 s
Memory usage5.8 GB0.9 GB
Memory %5%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen36-distill-apex

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

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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
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