Model comparison
Qwen3.8-27B vs Snowpiercer-15B-v4
At Q4_K_M, Snowpiercer-15B-v4 is the smaller download — 9,112,538,240 bytes against 16,810,714,336. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.8-27B's KV cache at 32K is 3.1× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3.8-27B | Snowpiercer-15B-v4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 27.8B | 15.0B |
| Architecture | qwen35 | llama |
| Layers | 64 | 50 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 65,536 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 22 | 24 |
| Smallest quantization | 8.39 GiB | 4.64 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 15.66 GiB | 8.49 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3.8-27B | Snowpiercer-15B-v4 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.25 GiB | 0.78 GiB | 3.12× |
| 8,192 | 0.50 GiB | 1.56 GiB | 3.12× |
| 16,384 | 1.00 GiB | 3.13 GiB | 3.12× |
| 32,768 | 2.00 GiB | 6.25 GiB | 3.12× |
| 65,536 | 4.00 GiB | 12.50 GiB | 3.12× |
| 131,072 | 8.00 GiB | 25.00 GiB | 3.12× |