exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 35

Quality Score

64 vs 86

Hardware

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec37.05.9

First chunk288 ms19 ms

TTFT288 ms1.8 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.4 GB22.0 GB

Memory %8%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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