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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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
97 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 96
Quality Score
98 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
MachineMac StudioMac Studio
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1212
RAM96 GB96 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
Tokens/sec79.699.6
First chunk11 ms18 ms
TTFT1.7 s1.6 s
Load time7.1 s4.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB0.3 GB
Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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