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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-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
87 vs 78
Hardware Fit
85 vs 56
Quality Score
88 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec45.710.8
First chunk17 ms8 ms
TTFT390 ms2.6 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage22.4 GB21.0 GB
Memory %70%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

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-mlx

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
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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