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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

qwen3-1.7b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 1.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
95 vs 19
Hardware Fit
94 vs 64
Quality Score
96 vs 0

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-1.7b
MachineMac StudioLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M2 MaxIntel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores124
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.1Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… qwen3-1.7b
Tokens/sec80.45.9
First chunk46 ms2111 ms
TTFT1.8 s2.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage21.2 GB1.2 GB
Memory %22%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

qwen3-1.7b

Speed
21/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3-1.7b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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