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qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

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Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4620 0

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 55
Hardware Fit
42 vs 87
Quality Score
84 vs 41

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b-inst… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineDell Inc. PowerEdge R820MacBook Air
CPUIntel Xeon® E5-4620 0Apple M4
Cores6410
RAM256 GB32 GB
GPUMicrosoft Remote Display Adapter, Microsoft Basic Display AdapterApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b-inst… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec4.068.2
First chunk2070 ms3268 ms
TTFT2.1 s3.3 s
Load time44.5 sN/A
Memory usage17.7 GB0.6 GB
Memory %7%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Speed
3/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ metrillm

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