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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

yi-coder:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
95 vs 70
Hardware Fit
94 vs 89
Quality Score
96 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… yi-coder:9b
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… yi-coder:9b
Tokens/sec80.419.4
First chunk46 ms287 ms
TTFT1.8 s287 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage21.2 GB9.6 GB
Memory %22%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

yi-coder: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

yi-coder:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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$ metrillm

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