exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXexaone · 2.4B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXllama · 1.7B · bf16
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
75 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
64 vs 51
Hardware
exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
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… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec37.028.5
First chunk288 ms393 ms
TTFT288 ms393 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.4 GB3.2 GB
Memory %8%10%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
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
smollm2-1.7b-instruct
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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