Model comparison

dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b-heretic vs Qwen3.6-27B

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-27B is the smaller download — 16,547,397,888 bytes against 20,658,713,888. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B's KV cache at 32K is 3.7× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b-hereticQwen3.6-27B
Parameters34.4B27.8B
Architecturellamaqwen35
Layers6064
Native context8,192262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1140
Smallest quantization11.94 GiB8.74 GiB
Q4_K_M19.24 GiB15.41 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextdolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b-hereticQwen3.6-27BRatio
4,0960.94 GiB0.25 GiB3.75×
8,1921.88 GiB0.50 GiB3.75×
16,3843.75 GiB1.00 GiB3.75×
32,7687.50 GiB2.00 GiB3.75×
65,53615.00 GiB4.00 GiB3.75×
131,07230.00 GiB8.00 GiB3.75×