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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

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
95 vs 63
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
96 vs 47

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… llama3.2:1b
MachineMac StudioNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M2 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores126
RAM96 GB7 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec80.440.2
First chunk46 ms1087 ms
TTFT1.8 s1.1 s
Load timeN/A6.2 s
Memory usage21.2 GB1.4 GB
Memory %22%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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