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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

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen2.5-coder:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
95 vs 79
Hardware Fit
94 vs 95
Quality Score
96 vs 72

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen2.5-coder:7b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen2.5-coder:7b
Tokens/sec80.422.1
First chunk46 msN/A
TTFT1.8 s285 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage21.2 GB7.6 GB
Memory %22%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
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-coder:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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