Is Qwen3.6-27B or Hy-MT2-30B-A3B smaller?

Qwen3.6-27B is smaller at Q4_K_M: 15.41 GiB against 16.98 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.6-27B — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.5x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3.6-27B vs Hy-MT2-30B-A3B

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-27B is the smaller download — 16,547,397,888 bytes against 18,236,702,752. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B's KV cache at 32K is 1.5× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3.6-27B	Hy-MT2-30B-A3B
Parameters	27.8B	30.1B
Architecture	qwen35	hy_v3
Layers	64	48
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	yes, 128 experts
Quantizations published	40	21
Smallest quantization	8.74 GiB	10.30 GiB
Q4_K_M	15.41 GiB	16.98 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	other

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3.6-27B	Hy-MT2-30B-A3B	Ratio
4,096	0.25 GiB	0.38 GiB	1.50×
8,192	0.50 GiB	0.75 GiB	1.50×
16,384	1.00 GiB	1.50 GiB	1.50×
32,768	2.00 GiB	3.00 GiB	1.50×
65,536	4.00 GiB	6.00 GiB	1.50×
131,072	8.00 GiB	12.00 GiB	1.50×