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qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
84 vs 80
Hardware Fit
93 vs 85
Quality Score
80 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3:8b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUCortex-X925Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores2080
RAM122 GB252 GB
GPUDevice 2e12TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modeperformancelow-power

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec92.765.1
First chunk286 ms289 ms
TTFT1.5 s4.2 s
Load time15.3 s4.6 s
Memory usage20.3 GB5.6 GB
Memory %17%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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