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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

rnj-1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 8.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
96 vs 80
Hardware Fit
95 vs 93
Quality Score
96 vs 74

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… rnj-1:8b
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… rnj-1:8b
Tokens/sec112.822.3
First chunk21 ms404 ms
TTFT1.5 s404 ms
Load time3.5 s3.7 s
Memory usage0.0 GB8.3 GB
Memory %0%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

rnj-1:8b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

rnj-1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
5/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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