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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

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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
97 vs 66
Hardware Fit
95 vs 63
Quality Score
98 vs 67

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i5-6500
Cores124
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec79.635.6
First chunk11 ms224 ms
TTFT1.7 s7.5 s
Load time7.1 s7.7 s
Memory usage0.0 GB4.6 GB
Memory %0%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

Quality

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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

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Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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