Model comparison
Qwen3.6-27B vs granite-20b-code-base-8k
At Q4_K_M, granite-20b-code-base-8k is the smaller download — 12,820,207,360 bytes against 16,547,397,888.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.6-27B | granite-20b-code-base-8k | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 27.8B | 20.1B |
| Architecture | qwen35 | starcoder |
| Layers | 64 | 52 |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 40 | 36 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.74 GiB | 4.21 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.41 GiB | 11.94 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.6-27B | granite-20b-code-base-8k | 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 | — | — |