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qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 59
Hardware Fit
70 vs 65
Quality Score
89 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3:30b-a3b-inst… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i9-14900KApple M4
Cores3210
RAM128 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:30b-a3b-inst… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec21.014.3
First chunk473 ms24 ms
TTFT473 ms13.4 s
Load time8.6 s13.3 s
Memory usage17.7 GB2.5 GB
Memory %14%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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