Model comparison

ace-step-v1.5-1d-vae-stable-audio-format vs Qwen3-0.6B

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

ace-step-v1.5-1d-vae-stable-audio-formatQwen3-0.6B
Parameters169M752M
Architectureacestep-vaeqwen3
Layers28
Native context40,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published144
Smallest quantization0.31 GiB0.20 GiB
Q4_K_M0.37 GiB
Licencemit

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextace-step-v1.5-1d-vae-stable-audio-formatQwen3-0.6BRatio
4,0960.44 GiB
8,1920.88 GiB
16,3841.75 GiB
32,7683.50 GiB
65,5367.00 GiB
131,07214.00 GiB