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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

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
97 vs 84
Hardware Fit
95 vs 97
Quality Score
98 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3:8b
MachineMac StudioASUS
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1224
RAM96 GB47 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec79.6208.0
First chunk11 ms82 ms
TTFT1.7 s1.3 s
Load time7.1 s1.5 s
Memory usage0.0 GB9.6 GB
Memory %0%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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