Is Qwen3.8-27B or Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador smaller?

Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador is smaller at Q4_K_M: 5.03 GiB against 15.66 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador — its KV cache at 32K context is 4.0x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3.8-27B vs Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador

At Q4_K_M, Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador is the smaller download — 5,405,168,288 bytes against 16,810,714,336. At long context the gap widens: Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador's KV cache at 32K is 4.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3.8-27B	Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador
Parameters	27.8B	8.0B
Architecture	qwen35	gemma4
Layers	64	42
Native context	262,144	131,072
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	22	22
Smallest quantization	8.39 GiB	3.69 GiB
Q4_K_M	15.66 GiB	5.03 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	gemma

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3.8-27B	Gemma-4-E4B-Luchador	Ratio
4,096	0.25 GiB	0.12 GiB	2.03×
8,192	0.50 GiB	0.18 GiB	2.81×
16,384	1.00 GiB	0.29 GiB	3.48×
32,768	2.00 GiB	0.51 GiB	3.95×
65,536	4.00 GiB	0.94 GiB	4.24×
131,072	8.00 GiB	1.82 GiB	4.40×