Model comparison
Qwen3.6-27B vs shieldgemma-27b
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-27B is the smaller download — 16,547,397,888 bytes against 16,645,382,784.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.6-27B | shieldgemma-27b | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 27.8B | 27.2B |
| Architecture | qwen35 | gemma2 |
| Layers | 64 | — |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 40 | 38 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.74 GiB | 5.71 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.41 GiB | 15.50 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.6-27B | shieldgemma-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 | — | — |