What is the original? The blog post doesn't state the quantization they benchmarked.

This 61GB one: https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-fp16

You can see it's roughly the same size as the one in the official repo (16 files of 4GB each):

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/tree/main

fp16 is overkill though. 8-bit is the sweet spot before perf degradation starts getting noticeable.

I haven't yet seen any evals comparing the original Qwen3-30B-A22B with https://ollama.com/library/qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0