Model comparison

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-heretic-empathy-ja vs gemma-4-E4B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E4B-it is the smaller download — 4,977,171,584 bytes against 7,381,384,064.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-heretic-empathy-jagemma-4-E4B-it
Parameters11.9B8.0B
Architecturegemma4gemma4
Layers42
Native context131,072
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published3536
Smallest quantization2.78 GiB3.30 GiB
Q4_K_M6.87 GiB4.64 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-heretic-empathy-jagemma-4-E4B-itRatio
4,0960.12 GiB
8,1920.18 GiB
16,3840.29 GiB
32,7680.51 GiB
65,5360.94 GiB
131,0721.82 GiB