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qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
94 vs 48
Hardware Fit
100 vs 77
Quality Score
91 vs 35

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec44.818.9
First chunk405 ms316 ms
TTFT405 ms13.0 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage16.0 GB5.9 GB
Memory %50%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
4/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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