Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs Olmo-3-32B-Think

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 1.2× 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-unquantizedOlmo-3-32B-Think
Parameters12.0B32.2B
Architecturegemma4olmo2
Layers4864
Native context262,14465,536
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published248
Smallest quantization6.50 GiB6.75 GiB
Q4_K_M18.14 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedOlmo-3-32B-ThinkRatio
4,0960.72 GiB1.00 GiB1.39×
8,1920.97 GiB1.34 GiB1.39×
16,3841.47 GiB1.84 GiB1.26×
32,7682.47 GiB2.84 GiB1.15×
65,5364.47 GiB4.84 GiB1.08×
131,0728.47 GiB8.84 GiB1.04×