qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

87 vs 66

Hardware Fit

85 vs 23

Quality Score

88 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… GPT-120B:120b

MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1020

RAM32 GB55 GB

GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… GPT-120B:120b

Tokens/sec45.716.8

First chunk17 ms11247 ms

TTFT390 ms12.2 s

Load timeN/A77.3 s

Memory usage22.4 GB61.6 GB

Memory %70%113%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

GPT-120B:120b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

2/20

Memory

0/30

Quality

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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