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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
87 vs 81
Hardware Fit
85 vs 96
Quality Score
88 vs 75

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec45.7109.1
First chunk17 ms190 ms
TTFT390 ms190 ms
Load timeN/A4.3 s
Memory usage22.4 GB5.6 GB
Memory %70%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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