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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-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX

Global Score
95 vs 52
Hardware Fit
94 vs 69
Quality Score
96 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
MachineMac StudioMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Titan 18 HX AI A2XWJG
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285HX
Cores1224
RAM96 GB63 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntel(R) Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-coder:30b-a3…
Tokens/sec80.429.4
First chunk46 ms593 ms
TTFT1.8 s593 ms
Load timeN/A14.2 s
Memory usage21.2 GB42.6 GB
Memory %22%67%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_…

Speed
33/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
16/30

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-coder:30b-a3b-q4_…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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