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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-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
87 vs 80
Hardware Fit
85 vs 60
Quality Score
88 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1020
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M1 ProParsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec45.714.7
First chunk17 ms796 ms
TTFT390 ms796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage22.4 GB17.9 GB
Memory %70%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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