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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

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
97 vs 71
Hardware Fit
95 vs 56
Quality Score
98 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac StudioSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1212
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec79.65.3
First chunk11 ms1624 ms
TTFT1.7 s1.6 s
Load time7.1 s4.0 s
Memory usage0.0 GB7.9 GB
Memory %0%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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