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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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
97 vs 82
Hardware Fit
95 vs 80
Quality Score
98 vs 83

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.6-35b-a3b
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… qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec79.655.2
First chunk11 ms4 ms
TTFT1.7 s30.0 s
Load time7.1 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB30.3 GB
Memory %0%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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