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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
84 vs 97
Hardware Fit
93 vs 95
Quality Score
80 vs 98

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMac Studio
CPUCortex-X925Apple M2 Max
Cores2012
RAM122 GB96 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M2 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec92.779.6
First chunk286 ms11 ms
TTFT1.5 s1.7 s
Load time15.3 s7.1 s
Memory usage20.3 GB0.0 GB
Memory %17%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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