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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
84 vs 80
Hardware Fit
93 vs 52
Quality Score
80 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4 Max
Cores2016
RAM122 GB128 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec92.716.1
First chunk286 ms14 ms
TTFT1.5 s5.8 s
Load time15.3 s8.5 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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
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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