Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs Qwable-3.6-27b

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-unquantizedQwable-3.6-27b
Parameters12.0B26.9B
Architecturegemma4qwen35
Layers48
Native context262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published26
Smallest quantization6.50 GiB10.12 GiB
Q4_K_M15.66 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0mit

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedQwable-3.6-27bRatio
4,0960.72 GiB
8,1920.97 GiB
16,3841.47 GiB
32,7682.47 GiB
65,5364.47 GiB
131,0728.47 GiB