qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
97 vs 55
Hardware Fit
95 vs 87
Quality Score
98 vs 41
Hardware
qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec79.668.2
First chunk11 ms3268 ms
TTFT1.7 s3.3 s
Load time7.1 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB0.6 GB
Memory %0%2%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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
qwen3.5-0.8b-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
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