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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

llama3.3:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
97 vs 73
Hardware Fit
95 vs 51
Quality Score
98 vs 83

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… llama3.3:70b
MachineMac StudioNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M2 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1220
RAM96 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… llama3.3:70b
Tokens/sec79.64.6
First chunk11 ms560 ms
TTFT1.7 s560 ms
Load time7.1 s13.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB49.5 GB
Memory %0%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

llama3.3:70b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
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

llama3.3:70b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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