Model comparison
Qwen3.8-27B vs gemma-4-26B-roleplay-v2-merged
At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-26B-roleplay-v2-merged is the smaller download — 16,796,015,616 bytes against 16,810,714,336.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.8-27B | gemma-4-26B-roleplay-v2-merged | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 27.8B | 25.2B |
| Architecture | qwen35 | gemma4 |
| Layers | 64 | — |
| Native context | 262,144 | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 22 | 34 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.39 GiB | 7.72 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.66 GiB | 15.64 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.8-27B | gemma-4-26B-roleplay-v2-merged | 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 | — | — |