Is Gemma-The-Writer-9B-HERETIC-Uncensored-Abliterated or gemma-4-E4B-it smaller?

gemma-4-E4B-it is smaller at Q4_K_M: 4.64 GiB against 5.37 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-E4B-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 11.8x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Gemma-The-Writer-9B-HERETIC-Uncensored-Abliterated vs gemma-4-E4B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E4B-it is the smaller download — 4,977,171,584 bytes against 5,761,059,136. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-E4B-it's KV cache at 32K is 11.8× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Gemma-The-Writer-9B-HERETIC-Uncensored-Abliterated	gemma-4-E4B-it
Parameters	9.2B	8.0B
Architecture	gemma2	gemma4
Layers	42	42
Native context	8,192	131,072
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	36	36
Smallest quantization	2.22 GiB	3.30 GiB
Q4_K_M	5.37 GiB	4.64 GiB
Licence	—	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Gemma-The-Writer-9B-HERETIC-Uncensored-Abliterated	gemma-4-E4B-it	Ratio
4,096	1.31 GiB	0.12 GiB	10.67×
8,192	2.05 GiB	0.18 GiB	11.54×
16,384	3.36 GiB	0.29 GiB	11.71×
32,768	5.99 GiB	0.51 GiB	11.84×
65,536	11.24 GiB	0.94 GiB	11.91×
131,072	21.74 GiB	1.82 GiB	11.95×