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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

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · Q3_K_M

Excellent

Apr 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
96 vs 90
Hardware Fit
95 vs 85
Quality Score
96 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… unsloth/gemma-4-26…
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… unsloth/gemma-4-26…
Tokens/sec112.824.9
First chunk21 ms15 ms
TTFT1.5 s817 ms
Load time3.5 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB16.8 GB
Memory %0%70%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

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

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

unsloth/gemma-4-26b-a4b…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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