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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

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
95 vs 79
Hardware Fit
94 vs 57
Quality Score
96 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:27b
MachineMac StudioAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1232
RAM96 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec80.410.7
First chunk46 ms341 ms
TTFT1.8 s341 ms
Load timeN/A10.2 s
Memory usage21.2 GB39.7 GB
Memory %22%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
17/20
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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