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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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
96 vs 79
Hardware Fit
95 vs 62
Quality Score
96 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook ProMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1632
RAM128 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxIntel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec112.816.4
First chunk21 ms787 ms
TTFT1.5 s787 ms
Load time3.5 s19.3 s
Memory usage0.0 GB21.8 GB
Memory %0%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
15/50
TTFT
17/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
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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