Is Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored or Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 smaller?

Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored is smaller at Q4_K_M: 10.33 GiB against 17.28 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.2x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

At Q4_K_M, Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored is the smaller download — 11,091,316,864 bytes against 18,556,685,824. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507's KV cache at 32K is 1.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored	Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507
Parameters	18.0B	30.5B
Architecture	llama	qwen3moe
Layers	28	48
Native context	131,072	262,144
Mixture of experts	yes, 8 experts	yes, 128 experts
Quantizations published	35	51
Smallest quantization	3.72 GiB	7.05 GiB
Q4_K_M	10.33 GiB	17.28 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Llama3.2-24B-A3B-II-Dark-Champion-INSTRUCT-Heretic-Abliterated-Uncensored	Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507	Ratio
4,096	0.44 GiB	0.38 GiB	1.17×
8,192	0.88 GiB	0.75 GiB	1.17×
16,384	1.75 GiB	1.50 GiB	1.17×
32,768	3.50 GiB	3.00 GiB	1.17×
65,536	7.00 GiB	6.00 GiB	1.17×
131,072	14.00 GiB	12.00 GiB	1.17×