Model comparison
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs cogito-v1-preview-qwen-32B
These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized's KV cache at 32K is 3.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | cogito-v1-preview-qwen-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 12.0B | 32.8B |
| Architecture | gemma4 | qwen2 |
| Layers | 48 | 64 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 2 | 52 |
| Smallest quantization | 6.50 GiB | 6.77 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | — | 18.49 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | cogito-v1-preview-qwen-32B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.72 GiB | 1.00 GiB | 1.39× |
| 8,192 | 0.97 GiB | 2.00 GiB | 2.06× |
| 16,384 | 1.47 GiB | 4.00 GiB | 2.72× |
| 32,768 | 2.47 GiB | 8.00 GiB | 3.24× |
| 65,536 | 4.47 GiB | 16.00 GiB | 3.58× |
| 131,072 | 8.47 GiB | 32.00 GiB | 3.78× |