Model comparison

nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b vs whisper-large-v2

At Q4_K_M, nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b is the smaller download — 495,831,520 bytes against 996,526,080.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bwhisper-large-v2
Parameters638M1.5B
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published86
Smallest quantization0.38 GiB0.93 GiB
Q4_K_M0.46 GiB0.93 GiB
Licenceotherapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextnemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bwhisper-large-v2Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072