Model comparison
AfriqueGemma-12B vs gemma-4-12B-it
These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| AfriqueGemma-12B | gemma-4-12B-it | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 12.2B | 12.0B |
| Architecture | gemma3 | gemma4 |
| Layers | 48 | 48 |
| Native context | 131,072 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 24 | 59 |
| Smallest quantization | 3.05 GiB | 3.92 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | — | 6.63 GiB |
| Licence | cc-by-4.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | AfriqueGemma-12B | gemma-4-12B-it | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.72 GiB | 0.72 GiB | 1.00× |
| 8,192 | 0.97 GiB | 0.97 GiB | 1.00× |
| 16,384 | 1.47 GiB | 1.47 GiB | 1.00× |
| 32,768 | 2.47 GiB | 2.47 GiB | 1.00× |
| 65,536 | 4.47 GiB | 4.47 GiB | 1.00× |
| 131,072 | 8.47 GiB | 8.47 GiB | 1.00× |