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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

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
97 vs 80
Hardware Fit
95 vs 85
Quality Score
98 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3:8b
MachineMac StudioHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1280
RAM96 GB252 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec79.665.1
First chunk11 ms289 ms
TTFT1.7 s4.2 s
Load time7.1 s4.6 s
Memory usage0.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %0%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

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