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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

qwen3.5:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
97 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 53
Quality Score
98 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:35b
MachineMac StudioASUS
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1220
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:35b
Tokens/sec79.616.0
First chunk11 ms719 ms
TTFT1.7 s719 ms
Load time7.1 s17.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB25.0 GB
Memory %0%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:35b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

qwen3.5:35b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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