Model comparison
L3-DARKEST-PLANET-16.5B vs gemma-4-E4B-it
At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E4B-it is the smaller download — 4,977,171,584 bytes against 10,207,765,536. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-E4B-it's KV cache at 32K is 17.5× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| L3-DARKEST-PLANET-16.5B | gemma-4-E4B-it | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 16.5B | 8.0B |
| Architecture | llama | gemma4 |
| Layers | 71 | 42 |
| Native context | 8,192 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 10 | 36 |
| Smallest quantization | 7.00 GiB | 3.30 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 9.51 GiB | 4.64 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | L3-DARKEST-PLANET-16.5B | gemma-4-E4B-it | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 1.11 GiB | 0.12 GiB | 9.02× |
| 8,192 | 2.22 GiB | 0.18 GiB | 12.48× |
| 16,384 | 4.44 GiB | 0.29 GiB | 15.46× |
| 32,768 | 8.88 GiB | 0.51 GiB | 17.54× |
| 65,536 | 17.75 GiB | 0.94 GiB | 18.82× |
| 131,072 | 35.50 GiB | 1.82 GiB | 19.52× |