qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
Global Score
55 vs 95
Hardware Fit
87 vs 94
Quality Score
41 vs 96
Hardware
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec68.280.4
First chunk3268 ms46 ms
TTFT3.3 s1.8 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB21.2 GB
Memory %2%22%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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