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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

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
97 vs 82
Hardware Fit
95 vs 81
Quality Score
98 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac StudioAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1232
RAM96 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec79.630.8
First chunk11 ms195 ms
TTFT1.7 s195 ms
Load time7.1 s5.2 s
Memory usage0.0 GB18.8 GB
Memory %0%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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