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Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-OS-Auto-Variable-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-THINKING

DavidAU/Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-OS-Auto-Variable-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-THINKING

Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-OS-Auto-Variable-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-THINKING at I1-IQ1_S is exactly 2,446,944,608 bytes (2.28 GiB / 2.45 GB) — an effective 2.080 bits per weight, not the nominal 1. Its KV cache at 32K is 1.00 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
9.4B
Architecture
qwen35
32 layers
Context
262,144
native (config.json)
License
apache-2.0

Shipped quantizations

exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSizeExact bytesEffective bpwTensorsPublisher
I1-IQ1_S2.28 GiB2,446,944,6082.080mradermacher
I1-IQ1_M2.42 GiB2,600,446,3042.211mradermacher
I1-IQ2_XXS2.66 GiB2,856,282,4642.428mradermacher
I1-IQ2_XS2.85 GiB3,065,145,6962.606mradermacher
I1-IQ2_S2.99 GiB3,207,768,4162.727mradermacher
I1-IQ2_M3.18 GiB3,412,437,3442.901mradermacher
I1-Q2_K_S3.27 GiB3,508,496,7362.983mradermacher
I1-Q2_K3.39 GiB3,638,520,1603.093mradermacher
I1-IQ3_XXS3.53 GiB3,793,463,6483.225mradermacher
I1-IQ3_XS3.85 GiB4,136,462,6883.517mradermacher
I1-Q3_K_S3.97 GiB4,259,408,2243.621mradermacher
I1-IQ3_S3.97 GiB4,263,864,6723.625mradermacher
I1-IQ3_M4.11 GiB4,415,383,9043.754mradermacher
I1-Q3_K_M4.30 GiB4,616,186,2083.925mradermacher
I1-Q3_K_L4.49 GiB4,824,852,8324.102mradermacher
I1-IQ4_XS4.72 GiB5,070,612,8324.311mradermacher
I1-IQ4_NL4.95 GiB5,317,552,4804.521mradermacher
I1-Q4_04.96 GiB5,325,941,0884.528mradermacher
I1-Q4_K_S4.97 GiB5,340,621,1524.540mradermacher
I1-Q4_K_M5.24 GiB5,627,046,2404.784mradermacher
I1-Q4_15.41 GiB5,809,334,6244.939mradermacher
I1-Q5_K_S5.87 GiB6,305,311,0725.361mradermacher
I1-Q5_K_M6.07 GiB6,522,005,8565.545mradermacher
I1-Q6_K6.85 GiB7,359,261,0246.257mradermacher
Q8_09.77 GiB10,486,948,8008.916DavidAU
BF1616.69 GiB17,920,697,02415.236DavidAU

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0960.13 GiB0.50 GiB4.00×8 / 0 / 24
8,1920.25 GiB1.00 GiB4.00×8 / 0 / 24
16,3840.50 GiB2.00 GiB4.00×8 / 0 / 24
32,7681.00 GiB4.00 GiB4.00×8 / 0 / 24
65,5362.00 GiB8.00 GiB4.00×8 / 0 / 24
131,0724.00 GiB16.00 GiB4.00×8 / 0 / 24

24 of 32 layers use linear attention, which keeps a fixed-size recurrent state instead of a per-token cache. Those layers do not grow with context at all — treating them as ordinary attention, as a flat formula does, overstates this model's cache by roughly 4.0× at long context.

Compare with

same modality, comparable size

Will it run on your card?

full quant x context sweep

Why other calculators give a different number

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts I1-IQ1_S at roughly 4.93 GiB. The real file is 2.28 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
32
Attention heads
16
KV heads
4
Head dim
256
Hidden size
4096
Vocab
248,320
Sliding window
none
SWA period
MLA
no
Experts
Experts per token
use_sliding_window

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-OS-Auto-Variable-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-THINKING need?
I1-IQ1_S is exactly 2,446,944,608 bytes (2.28 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-OS-Auto-Variable-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-THINKING's KV cache?
1.00 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
Which quantization of Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6-OS-Auto-Variable-HERETIC-UNCENSORED-THINKING should I use?
Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.