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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

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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
97 vs 36
Hardware Fit
95 vs 53
Quality Score
98 vs 28

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB24 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec79.610.3
First chunk11 ms27 ms
TTFT1.7 s20.7 s
Load time7.1 s15.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %0%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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