Model comparison

gemma-3-270m-qat vs Qwen3-1.7B

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

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-3-270m-qatQwen3-1.7B
Parameters268M2.0B
Architecturegemma3qwen3
Layers28
Native context40,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published148
Smallest quantization0.22 GiB0.50 GiB
Q4_K_M1.03 GiB
Licence

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-3-270m-qatQwen3-1.7BRatio
4,0960.44 GiB
8,1920.88 GiB
16,3841.75 GiB
32,7683.50 GiB
65,5367.00 GiB
131,07214.00 GiB