Model comparison
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct vs Qwen3.6-27B
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-27B is the smaller download — 16,547,397,888 bytes against 25,345,994,304.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct | Qwen3.6-27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 41.9B | 27.8B |
| Architecture | phimoe | qwen35 |
| Layers | 32 | 64 |
| Native context | 131,072 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | yes, 16 experts | no |
| Quantizations published | 29 | 40 |
| Smallest quantization | 10.27 GiB | 8.74 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 23.61 GiB | 15.41 GiB |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct | Qwen3.6-27B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | 0.25 GiB | — |
| 8,192 | — | 0.50 GiB | — |
| 16,384 | — | 1.00 GiB | — |
| 32,768 | — | 2.00 GiB | — |
| 65,536 | — | 4.00 GiB | — |
| 131,072 | — | 8.00 GiB | — |