Is gemma-3n-E4B-it or Qwythos-9B-v2 smaller?

gemma-3n-E4B-it is smaller at Q4_K_M: 3.95 GiB against 5.63 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-3n-E4B-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.0x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

gemma-3n-E4B-it vs Qwythos-9B-v2

At Q4_K_M, gemma-3n-E4B-it is the smaller download — 4,237,064,064 bytes against 6,047,707,680. At long context the gap widens: gemma-3n-E4B-it's KV cache at 32K is 2.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	gemma-3n-E4B-it	Qwythos-9B-v2
Parameters	7.8B	9.7B
Architecture	gemma3n	qwen35
Layers	35	32
Native context	32,768	1,048,576
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	38	43
Smallest quantization	2.57 GiB	3.64 GiB
Q4_K_M	3.95 GiB	5.63 GiB
Licence	gemma	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	gemma-3n-E4B-it	Qwythos-9B-v2	Ratio
4,096	0.11 GiB	0.13 GiB	1.14×
8,192	0.16 GiB	0.25 GiB	1.52×
16,384	0.27 GiB	0.50 GiB	1.83×
32,768	0.49 GiB	1.00 GiB	2.03×
65,536	0.93 GiB	2.00 GiB	2.15×
131,072	1.80 GiB	4.00 GiB	2.22×