qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 4, 2026 · Submitted by Topaz750

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Global Score

94 /100

Excellent

Hardware Fit

100/100

Quality

91/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 44.8
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±1.0
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 405 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 405 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: N/A
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 16.0 GB (50%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 931

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction following

17/20

Structured output

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: LM Studio 0.4.6+1
Model format: MLX
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 5bda06b476e77eba25fe9c89d26ba35591230c50f6b1d669f390cfff1768e0e8

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 100/100. Overall suitability: EXCELLENT (Global 94/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Strong, Coding: Strong, Instruction Following: Strong, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Strong, Multilingual: Strong.

Warnings

Significant swap activity during benchmark (+0.9 GB). Model may exceed available RAM — results are severely degraded.

Bench Environment

Power: AC Swap delta: +0.9 GB CPU load: avg 26% (peak 30%)

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