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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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
95 vs 83
Hardware Fit
94 vs 70
Quality Score
96 vs 89

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1232
RAM96 GB128 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec80.421.0
First chunk46 ms473 ms
TTFT1.8 s473 ms
Load timeN/A8.6 s
Memory usage21.2 GB17.7 GB
Memory %22%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Speed
20/50
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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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