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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
87 vs 80
Hardware Fit
85 vs 66
Quality Score
88 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M1 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M1 ProRadeon 8060S
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec45.718.4
First chunk17 ms587 ms
TTFT390 ms587 ms
Load timeN/A7.4 s
Memory usage22.4 GB17.4 GB
Memory %70%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
19/20
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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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