exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXexaone · 2.4B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
75 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
64 vs 60
Hardware
exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec37.032.9
First chunk288 ms3096 ms
TTFT288 ms3.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.4 GB2.5 GB
Memory %8%8%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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