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qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
94 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
91 vs 55

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec44.833.2
First chunk405 ms7 ms
TTFT405 ms311 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage16.0 GB0.5 GB
Memory %50%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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