qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
95 vs 65
Hardware Fit
94 vs 96
Quality Score
96 vs 52
Hardware
qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… starling-lm:7b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec80.423.8
First chunk46 ms232 ms
TTFT1.8 s232 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage21.2 GB5.3 GB
Memory %22%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
30/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
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
starling-lm:7b
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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