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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

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 8.0B · Q8_0

Excellent

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
96 vs 91
Hardware Fit
95 vs 88
Quality Score
96 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1610
RAM128 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0
Tokens/sec112.830.0
First chunk21 ms311 ms
TTFT1.5 s6.2 s
Load time3.5 s6.9 s
Memory usage0.0 GB5.0 GB
Memory %0%31%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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