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exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
75 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
64 vs 87

Hardware

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec37.033.4
First chunk288 ms257 ms
TTFT288 ms257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.4 GB4.3 GB
Memory %8%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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