qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit
Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
Global Score
96 vs 84
Hardware Fit
95 vs 69
Quality Score
96 vs 90
Hardware
qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1616
RAM128 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec112.828.9
First chunk21 ms33 ms
TTFT1.5 s4.4 s
Load time3.5 s7.9 s
Memory usage0.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %0%0%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Speed
33/50
TTFT
6/20
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
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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