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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

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
95 vs 20
Hardware Fit
94 vs 34
Quality Score
96 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.6:27b
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1212
RAM96 GB24 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec80.410.6
First chunk46 ms1344 ms
TTFT1.8 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage21.2 GB18.1 GB
Memory %22%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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