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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

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
95 vs 81
Hardware Fit
94 vs 98
Quality Score
96 vs 74

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac StudioMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M2 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1212
RAM96 GB8 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec80.493.7
First chunk46 ms249 ms
TTFT1.8 s249 ms
Load timeN/A10.1 s
Memory usage21.2 GB2.9 GB
Memory %22%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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