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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

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
95 vs 18
Hardware Fit
94 vs 53
Quality Score
96 vs 3

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineMac StudioLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores128
RAM96 GB23 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.1Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec80.49.4
First chunk46 ms799 ms
TTFT1.8 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage21.2 GB1.9 GB
Memory %22%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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