Is Ornith-1.0-35B-AEON-Ultimate-Uncensored-BF16 or gemma-4-E4B-it smaller?

gemma-4-E4B-it is smaller at Q4_K_M: 4.64 GiB against 20.98 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-E4B-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.2x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Ornith-1.0-35B-AEON-Ultimate-Uncensored-BF16 vs gemma-4-E4B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E4B-it is the smaller download — 4,977,171,584 bytes against 22,528,154,464. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-E4B-it'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

	Ornith-1.0-35B-AEON-Ultimate-Uncensored-BF16	gemma-4-E4B-it
Parameters	35.1B	8.0B
Architecture	qwen35moe	gemma4
Layers	40	42
Native context	262,144	131,072
Mixture of experts	yes, 256 experts	no
Quantizations published	16	36
Smallest quantization	7.67 GiB	3.30 GiB
Q4_K_M	20.98 GiB	4.64 GiB
Licence	other	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Ornith-1.0-35B-AEON-Ultimate-Uncensored-BF16	gemma-4-E4B-it	Ratio
4,096	0.08 GiB	0.12 GiB	1.57×
8,192	0.16 GiB	0.18 GiB	1.14×
16,384	0.31 GiB	0.29 GiB	1.09×
32,768	0.63 GiB	0.51 GiB	1.24×
65,536	1.25 GiB	0.94 GiB	1.33×
131,072	2.50 GiB	1.82 GiB	1.37×