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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
84 vs 80
Hardware Fit
93 vs 77
Quality Score
80 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB48 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec92.7129.8
First chunk286 ms77 ms
TTFT1.5 s30.0 s
Load time15.3 s1.8 s
Memory usage20.3 GB19.7 GB
Memory %17%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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