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-unquantizedQwen3.5-9B
Parameters12.2B9.7B
Architecturegemma3qwen35
Layers32
Native context262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1534
Smallest quantization4.11 GiB2.97 GiB
Q4_K_M6.80 GiB5.24 GiB
Licencegemmaapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-3-12b-it-qat-int4-unquantizedQwen3.5-9BRatio
4,0960.13 GiB
8,1920.25 GiB
16,3840.50 GiB
32,7681.00 GiB
65,5362.00 GiB
131,0724.00 GiB