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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

llama3.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
95 vs 74
Hardware Fit
94 vs 99
Quality Score
96 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… llama3.2:3b
MachineMac StudioNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M2 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores126
RAM96 GB7 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… llama3.2:3b
Tokens/sec80.421.1
First chunk46 ms1032 ms
TTFT1.8 s1.0 s
Load timeN/A8.4 s
Memory usage21.2 GB2.4 GB
Memory %22%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

llama3.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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