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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
87 vs 75
Hardware Fit
85 vs 50
Quality Score
88 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen2.5:72b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M1 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… qwen2.5:72b
Tokens/sec45.74.4
First chunk17 ms529 ms
TTFT390 ms529 ms
Load timeN/A49.7 s
Memory usage22.4 GB54.0 GB
Memory %70%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

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

qwen2.5:72b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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