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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 84
Hardware Fit
93 vs 94
Quality Score
80 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM122 GB16 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec92.725.0
First chunk286 ms357 ms
TTFT1.5 s357 ms
Load time15.3 s3.8 s
Memory usage20.3 GB8.4 GB
Memory %17%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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