Model comparison
Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-MAX
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.8-27B is the smaller download — 16,810,714,336 bytes against 21,166,758,880. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-MAX's KV cache at 32K is 3.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.8-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-MAX | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 27.8B | 35.1B |
| Architecture | qwen35 | qwen35moe |
| Layers | 64 | 40 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | yes, 256 experts |
| Quantizations published | 22 | 38 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.39 GiB | 6.97 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.66 GiB | 19.71 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.8-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-MAX | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.25 GiB | 0.08 GiB | 3.20× |
| 8,192 | 0.50 GiB | 0.16 GiB | 3.20× |
| 16,384 | 1.00 GiB | 0.31 GiB | 3.20× |
| 32,768 | 2.00 GiB | 0.63 GiB | 3.20× |
| 65,536 | 4.00 GiB | 1.25 GiB | 3.20× |
| 131,072 | 8.00 GiB | 2.50 GiB | 3.20× |