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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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
96 vs 87
Hardware Fit
95 vs 80
Quality Score
96 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… nemotron-3.5-light…
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1620
RAM128 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… nemotron-3.5-light…
Tokens/sec112.884.1
First chunk21 ms371 ms
TTFT1.5 s30.0 s
Load time3.5 s0.3 s
Memory usage0.0 GB24.9 GB
Memory %0%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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