Model comparison

ace-step-v1.5-1d-vae-stable-audio-format vs gemma-3-1b-it

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

ace-step-v1.5-1d-vae-stable-audio-formatgemma-3-1b-it
Parameters169M1000M
Architectureacestep-vaegemma3
Layers26
Native context32,768
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published128
Smallest quantization0.31 GiB0.52 GiB
Q4_K_M0.75 GiB
Licencemitgemma

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextace-step-v1.5-1d-vae-stable-audio-formatgemma-3-1b-itRatio
4,0960.04 GiB
8,1920.05 GiB
16,3840.08 GiB
32,7680.15 GiB
65,5360.27 GiB
131,0720.52 GiB