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qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
97 vs 85
Hardware Fit
95 vs 95
Quality Score
98 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… gemma4:e4b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M2 Pro
Cores1210
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… gemma4:e4b-mlx
Tokens/sec79.647.3
First chunk11 ms258 ms
TTFT1.7 s258 ms
Load time7.1 s5.1 s
Memory usage0.0 GB7.9 GB
Memory %0%49%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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