Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs Le-Chaton-Slim-23B

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 1.3× 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-unquantizedLe-Chaton-Slim-23B
Parameters12.0B23.3B
Architecturegemma4llama
Layers4826
Native context262,144262,144
Mixture of expertsnoyes, 10 experts
Quantizations published234
Smallest quantization6.50 GiB4.59 GiB
Q4_K_M13.21 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedLe-Chaton-Slim-23BRatio
4,0960.72 GiB0.41 GiB1.77×
8,1920.97 GiB0.81 GiB1.19×
16,3841.47 GiB1.63 GiB1.11×
32,7682.47 GiB3.25 GiB1.32×
65,5364.47 GiB6.50 GiB1.45×
131,0728.47 GiB13.00 GiB1.54×