Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs TildeOpen-30B-Instruct-LV

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 3.0× 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-unquantizedTildeOpen-30B-Instruct-LV
Parameters12.0B30.7B
Architecturegemma4llama
Layers4860
Native context262,14465,536
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published223
Smallest quantization6.50 GiB6.43 GiB
Q4_K_M
Licenceapache-2.0cc-by-4.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedTildeOpen-30B-Instruct-LVRatio
4,0960.72 GiB0.94 GiB1.30×
8,1920.97 GiB1.88 GiB1.94×
16,3841.47 GiB3.75 GiB2.55×
32,7682.47 GiB7.50 GiB3.04×
65,5364.47 GiB15.00 GiB3.36×
131,0728.47 GiB30.00 GiB3.54×