exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

75 vs 65

Hardware Fit

100 vs 96

Quality Score

64 vs 51

Hardware

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…

MachineMacBook AirMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…

Tokens/sec37.099.6

First chunk288 ms18 ms

TTFT288 ms1.6 s

Load timeN/A4.8 s

Memory usage2.4 GB0.3 GB

Memory %8%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

16/20

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

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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