Model comparison

gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized vs gemma-4-26B-A4B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized is the smaller download — 16,546,688,736 bytes against 16,796,017,248.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedgemma-4-26B-A4B-it
Parameters27.4B26.5B
Architecturegemma3gemma4
Layers30
Native context262,144
Mixture of expertsnoyes, 128 experts
Quantizations published4546
Smallest quantization6.06 GiB8.99 GiB
Q4_K_M15.41 GiB15.64 GiB
Licencegemmaapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedgemma-4-26B-A4B-itRatio
4,0960.45 GiB
8,1920.61 GiB
16,3840.92 GiB
32,7681.54 GiB
65,5362.79 GiB
131,0725.29 GiB