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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
87 vs 77
Hardware Fit
85 vs 100
Quality Score
88 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen2.5:3b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M1 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen2.5:3b
Tokens/sec45.721.4
First chunk17 ms1006 ms
TTFT390 ms1.0 s
Load timeN/A6.4 s
Memory usage22.4 GB2.0 GB
Memory %70%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

qwen2.5:3b

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

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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