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Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
91 vs 59
Hardware Fit
98 vs 63
Quality Score
88 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXMLMacBook Pro
CPUNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM55 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPUApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec80.518.3
First chunk158 ms4 ms
TTFT158 ms530 ms
Load time21.8 sN/A
Memory usage20.3 GB38.5 GB
Memory %37%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest