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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-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
97 vs 59
Hardware Fit
95 vs 69
Quality Score
98 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM96 GB48 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec79.630.5
First chunk11 ms333 ms
TTFT1.7 s30.0 s
Load time7.1 s9.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB25.1 GB
Memory %0%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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