Model comparison

dolphin-2_6-phi-2 vs Qwen3-8B

At Q4_K_M, dolphin-2_6-phi-2 is the smaller download — 1,789,240,608 bytes against 5,027,783,488.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

dolphin-2_6-phi-2Qwen3-8B
Parameters2.8B8.2B
Architecturephi2qwen3
Layers3236
Native context40,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1251
Smallest quantization1.09 GiB2.12 GiB
Q4_K_M1.67 GiB4.68 GiB
Licenceotherapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextdolphin-2_6-phi-2Qwen3-8BRatio
4,0960.56 GiB
8,1921.13 GiB
16,3842.25 GiB
32,7684.50 GiB
65,5369.00 GiB
131,07218.00 GiB