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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-coder:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
87 vs 68
Hardware Fit
85 vs 100
Quality Score
88 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores108
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M1 ProCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 15.6.1Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
Tokens/sec45.721.8
First chunk17 ms499 ms
TTFT390 ms499 ms
Load timeN/A4.4 s
Memory usage22.4 GB1.5 GB
Memory %70%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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-coder:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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