Is gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic or Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP smaller?

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic is smaller at Q4_K_M: 15.64 GiB against 34.04 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic — its KV cache at 32K context is 1.3x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic vs Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic is the smaller download — 16,796,011,744 bytes against 36,545,830,912. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic's KV cache at 32K is 1.3× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP
Parameters	25.8B	27.8B
Architecture	gemma4	qwen35
Layers	30	64
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	yes, 128 experts	no
Quantizations published	20	34
Smallest quantization	9.86 GiB	10.12 GiB
Q4_K_M	15.64 GiB	34.04 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-heretic	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP	Ratio
4,096	0.45 GiB	0.25 GiB	1.80×
8,192	0.61 GiB	0.50 GiB	1.21×
16,384	0.92 GiB	1.00 GiB	1.09×
32,768	1.54 GiB	2.00 GiB	1.30×
65,536	2.79 GiB	4.00 GiB	1.43×
131,072	5.29 GiB	8.00 GiB	1.51×