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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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Global Score
95 vs 84
Hardware Fit
94 vs 79
Quality Score
96 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac StudioASUS
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Cores1216
RAM96 GB31 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, Raphael
OSmacOS 26.1cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec80.4115.8
First chunk46 ms9 ms
TTFT1.8 s310 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage21.2 GB25.3 GB
Memory %22%83%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
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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