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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 75
Hardware Fit
93 vs 93
Quality Score
80 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b llama3.1:8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec92.720.3
First chunk286 msN/A
TTFT1.5 s315 ms
Load time15.3 s1.1 s
Memory usage20.3 GB10.4 GB
Memory %17%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
30/20
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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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