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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

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
95 vs 72
Hardware Fit
94 vs 89
Quality Score
96 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5-9b
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec80.428.9
First chunk46 ms338 ms
TTFT1.8 s338 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage21.2 GB6.1 GB
Memory %22%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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