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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-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
97 vs 80
Hardware Fit
95 vs 60
Quality Score
98 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac StudioASUS
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1220
RAM96 GB96 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxParsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec79.614.7
First chunk11 ms796 ms
TTFT1.7 s796 ms
Load time7.1 s0.2 s
Memory usage0.0 GB17.9 GB
Memory %0%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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