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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

granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
95 vs 80
Hardware Fit
94 vs 80
Quality Score
96 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… granite4.2:3b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1210
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-30b-a3b-thin… granite4.2:3b
Tokens/sec80.446.8
First chunk46 ms135 ms
TTFT1.8 s135 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage21.2 GB12.7 GB
Memory %22%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

granite4.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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