Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it vs Skywork-R1V3-38B

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-12B-it is the smaller download — 7,121,861,440 bytes against 19,848,566,240.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-4-12B-itSkywork-R1V3-38B
Parameters12.0B38.4B
Architecturegemma4qwen2
Layers48
Native context262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published5930
Smallest quantization3.92 GiB8.41 GiB
Q4_K_M6.63 GiB18.49 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0mit

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-itSkywork-R1V3-38BRatio
4,0960.72 GiB
8,1920.97 GiB
16,3841.47 GiB
32,7682.47 GiB
65,5364.47 GiB
131,0728.47 GiB