Model comparison
gemma-3-12b-it-qat-int4-unquantized vs Qwen3.5-9B
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.5-9B is the smaller download — 5,627,044,256 bytes against 7,300,778,848.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| gemma-3-12b-it-qat-int4-unquantized | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 12.2B | 9.7B |
| Architecture | gemma3 | qwen35 |
| Layers | — | 32 |
| Native context | — | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 15 | 34 |
| Smallest quantization | 4.11 GiB | 2.97 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 6.80 GiB | 5.24 GiB |
| Licence | gemma | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | gemma-3-12b-it-qat-int4-unquantized | Qwen3.5-9B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | 0.13 GiB | — |
| 8,192 | — | 0.25 GiB | — |
| 16,384 | — | 0.50 GiB | — |
| 32,768 | — | 1.00 GiB | — |
| 65,536 | — | 2.00 GiB | — |
| 131,072 | — | 4.00 GiB | — |