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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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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
97 vs 37
Hardware Fit
95 vs 73
Quality Score
98 vs 22

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMac StudioLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores128
RAM96 GB23 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.1Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec79.618.4
First chunk11 ms593 ms
TTFT1.7 s30.0 s
Load time7.1 s3.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %0%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
0/20
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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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