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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
84 vs 59
Hardware Fit
93 vs 63
Quality Score
80 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec92.718.3
First chunk286 ms4 ms
TTFT1.5 s530 ms
Load time15.3 sN/A
Memory usage20.3 GB38.5 GB
Memory %17%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

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

qwen3.8-27b-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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