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qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
94 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 73
Quality Score
91 vs 87

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec44.811.1
First chunk405 ms500 ms
TTFT405 ms500 ms
Load timeN/A7.3 s
Memory usage16.0 GB9.4 GB
Memory %50%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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