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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

qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
97 vs 84
Hardware Fit
95 vs 93
Quality Score
98 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3:30b-a3b
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… qwen3:30b-a3b
Tokens/sec79.692.7
First chunk11 ms286 ms
TTFT1.7 s1.5 s
Load time7.1 s15.3 s
Memory usage0.0 GB20.3 GB
Memory %0%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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