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qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
94 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
91 vs 61

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… mlx-community/gemm…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… mlx-community/gemm…
Tokens/sec44.886.3
First chunk405 ms253 ms
TTFT405 ms253 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage16.0 GB1.1 GB
Memory %50%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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