Model comparison

Qwen3.6-9B-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking-Sweet-Madness vs gemma-4-12B-it

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-9B-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking-Sweet-Madness is the smaller download — 5,463,652,192 bytes against 7,121,861,440. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-9B-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking-Sweet-Madness's KV cache at 32K is 4.9× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Qwen3.6-9B-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking-Sweet-Madnessgemma-4-12B-it
Parameters9.1B12.0B
Architectureqwen35gemma4
Layers1648
Native context262,144262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published259
Smallest quantization4.88 GiB3.92 GiB
Q4_K_M5.09 GiB6.63 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextQwen3.6-9B-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking-Sweet-Madnessgemma-4-12B-itRatio
4,0960.06 GiB0.72 GiB11.49×
8,1920.13 GiB0.97 GiB7.75×
16,3840.25 GiB1.47 GiB5.87×
32,7680.50 GiB2.47 GiB4.94×
65,5361.00 GiB4.47 GiB4.47×
131,0722.00 GiB8.47 GiB4.23×