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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

unsloth/qwen3.5-9b@q4_k_m

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
95 vs 73
Hardware Fit
94 vs 52
Quality Score
96 vs 82

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… unsloth/qwen3.5-9b…
MachineMac StudioDocker Container
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1216
RAM96 GB15 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxTigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.1Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… unsloth/qwen3.5-9b…
Tokens/sec80.46.5
First chunk46 ms13 ms
TTFT1.8 s4.1 s
Load timeN/A10.8 s
Memory usage21.2 GB2.2 GB
Memory %22%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

unsloth/qwen3.5-9b@q4_k_m

Speed
11/50
TTFT
11/20
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

unsloth/qwen3.5-9b@q4_k_m

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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