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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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 1.94B · BF16

Good

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
95 vs 66
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
96 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1210
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec80.440.2
First chunk46 ms325 ms
TTFT1.8 s325 ms
Load timeN/A3.1 s
Memory usage21.2 GB4.7 GB
Memory %22%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

Quality

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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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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