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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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
95 vs 80
Hardware Fit
94 vs 79
Quality Score
96 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMac StudioASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M2 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1220
RAM96 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec80.455.5
First chunk46 ms528 ms
TTFT1.8 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A32.6 s
Memory usage21.2 GB41.0 GB
Memory %22%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
10/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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