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

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

95 vs 59

Hardware Fit

94 vs 94

Quality Score

96 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMacBook Air

CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

Cores1210

RAM96 GB32 GB

GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec80.445.3

First chunk46 ms2440 ms

TTFT1.8 s2.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage21.2 GB0.0 GB

Memory %22%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

Memory

29/30

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

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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