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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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · IQ3_XXS

Excellent

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
97 vs 80
Hardware Fit
95 vs 62
Quality Score
98 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5-35b-a3b
MachineMac StudioDocker Container
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1216
RAM96 GB15 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec79.610.6
First chunk11 ms52 ms
TTFT1.7 s3.2 s
Load time7.1 s7.6 s
Memory usage0.0 GB1.1 GB
Memory %0%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Speed
19/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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