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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

qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
96 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 100
Quality Score
96 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen2.5:3b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores166
RAM128 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen2.5:3b
Tokens/sec112.821.4
First chunk21 ms1006 ms
TTFT1.5 s1.0 s
Load time3.5 s6.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB2.0 GB
Memory %0%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen2.5:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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