Is Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP or Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 smaller?

Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 is smaller at Q4_K_M: 13.35 GiB against 34.04 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.5x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP vs Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506

At Q4_K_M, Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 is the smaller download — 14,333,909,728 bytes against 36,545,830,912. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP's KV cache at 32K is 2.5× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP	Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506
Parameters	27.8B	24.0B
Architecture	qwen35	llama
Layers	64	40
Native context	262,144	131,072
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	34	50
Smallest quantization	10.12 GiB	5.18 GiB
Q4_K_M	34.04 GiB	13.35 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP	Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506	Ratio
4,096	0.25 GiB	0.63 GiB	2.50×
8,192	0.50 GiB	1.25 GiB	2.50×
16,384	1.00 GiB	2.50 GiB	2.50×
32,768	2.00 GiB	5.00 GiB	2.50×
65,536	4.00 GiB	10.00 GiB	2.50×
131,072	8.00 GiB	20.00 GiB	2.50×