Is gemma-3-1b-it-abliterated or gemma-3-1b-it smaller?

gemma-3-1b-it is smaller at Q4_K_M: 0.75 GiB against 0.75 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-3-1b-it — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.0x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

At Q4_K_M, gemma-3-1b-it is the smaller download — 806,058,240 bytes against 806,058,592.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	gemma-3-1b-it-abliterated	gemma-3-1b-it	Ratio
4,096	0.04 GiB	0.04 GiB	1.00×
8,192	0.05 GiB	0.05 GiB	1.00×
16,384	0.08 GiB	0.08 GiB	1.00×
32,768	0.15 GiB	0.15 GiB	1.00×
65,536	0.27 GiB	0.27 GiB	1.00×
131,072	0.52 GiB	0.52 GiB	1.00×