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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

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q6_K

Not Rec.

Sep 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
96 vs 72
Hardware Fit
95 vs 35
Quality Score
96 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook ProSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4 MaxAMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Cores1616
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxAMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec112.88.3
First chunk21 ms32 ms
TTFT1.5 s2.0 s
Load time3.5 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB28.9 GB
Memory %0%91%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
5/30

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

qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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