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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

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
95 vs 88
Hardware Fit
94 vs 90
Quality Score
96 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMac StudioGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores1216
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec80.431.0
First chunk46 ms549 ms
TTFT1.8 s549 ms
Load timeN/A14.3 s
Memory usage21.2 GB17.7 GB
Memory %22%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
20/20
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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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