Model comparison
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it vs gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized
At Q4_K_M, gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized is the smaller download — 16,546,688,736 bytes against 16,796,017,248.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 26.5B | 27.4B |
| Architecture | gemma4 | gemma3 |
| Layers | 30 | — |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 128 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 46 | 45 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.99 GiB | 6.06 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.64 GiB | 15.41 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.45 GiB | — | — |
| 8,192 | 0.61 GiB | — | — |
| 16,384 | 0.92 GiB | — | — |
| 32,768 | 1.54 GiB | — | — |
| 65,536 | 2.79 GiB | — | — |
| 131,072 | 5.29 GiB | — | — |