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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

qwen3.8:27b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q8_0

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor

Global Score
96 vs 89
Hardware Fit
95 vs 88
Quality Score
96 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. PowerEdge XE8545
CPUApple M4 MaxAMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Cores16128
RAM128 GB1007 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxGA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], Integrated Matrox G200eW3 Graphics Controller, GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Rocky Linux 8.10
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
Tokens/sec112.839.9
First chunk21 ms192 ms
TTFT1.5 s192 ms
Load time3.5 s19.0 s
Memory usage0.0 GB51.0 GB
Memory %0%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.8:27b-q8_0

Speed
38/50
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

qwen3.8:27b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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