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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
87 vs 93
Hardware Fit
85 vs 100
Quality Score
88 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… nemotron-3-nano
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… nemotron-3-nano
Tokens/sec45.793.3
First chunk17 ms257 ms
TTFT390 ms257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage22.4 GB0.1 GB
Memory %70%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

nemotron-3-nano

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

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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