Is AfriqueGemma-12B or Qwen3.5-4B smaller?

Both publish quantizations; compare the table for the exact sizes.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.5-4B — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.5x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

AfriqueGemma-12B vs Qwen3.5-4B

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.5-4B's KV cache at 32K is 2.5× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	AfriqueGemma-12B	Qwen3.5-4B
Parameters	12.2B	4.7B
Architecture	gemma3	qwen35
Layers	48	32
Native context	131,072	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	24	57
Smallest quantization	3.05 GiB	1.42 GiB
Q4_K_M	—	2.52 GiB
Licence	cc-by-4.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	AfriqueGemma-12B	Qwen3.5-4B	Ratio
4,096	0.72 GiB	0.13 GiB	5.75×
8,192	0.97 GiB	0.25 GiB	3.87×
16,384	1.47 GiB	0.50 GiB	2.94×
32,768	2.47 GiB	1.00 GiB	2.47×
65,536	4.47 GiB	2.00 GiB	2.23×
131,072	8.47 GiB	4.00 GiB	2.12×