Model comparison

Mistral-7B-v0.3-Chinese-Chat vs Qwen3-8B

At Q4_K_M, Mistral-7B-v0.3-Chinese-Chat is the smaller download — 4,372,811,680 bytes against 5,027,783,488.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Mistral-7B-v0.3-Chinese-ChatQwen3-8B
Parameters7.2B8.2B
Architecturellamaqwen3
Layers3236
Native context32,76840,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1751
Smallest quantization2.54 GiB2.12 GiB
Q4_K_M4.07 GiB4.68 GiB
Licencemitapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextMistral-7B-v0.3-Chinese-ChatQwen3-8BRatio
4,0960.50 GiB0.56 GiB1.13×
8,1921.00 GiB1.13 GiB1.13×
16,3842.00 GiB2.25 GiB1.13×
32,7684.00 GiB4.50 GiB1.13×
65,5368.00 GiB9.00 GiB1.13×
131,07216.00 GiB18.00 GiB1.13×