Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2507

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedMistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2507
Parameters12.0B23.6B
Architecturegemma4llama
Layers48
Native context262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published218
Smallest quantization6.50 GiB8.28 GiB
Q4_K_M13.35 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedMistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2507Ratio
4,0960.72 GiB
8,1920.97 GiB
16,3841.47 GiB
32,7682.47 GiB
65,5364.47 GiB
131,0728.47 GiB