Model comparison

gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic vs gemma-4-12B-it

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic is the smaller download — 5,335,286,336 bytes against 7,121,861,440. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic's KV cache at 32K is 4.9× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticgemma-4-12B-it
Parameters8.0B12.0B
Architecturegemma4gemma4
Layers4248
Native context131,072262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published2459
Smallest quantization4.10 GiB3.92 GiB
Q4_K_M4.97 GiB6.63 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextgemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-hereticgemma-4-12B-itRatio
4,0960.12 GiB0.72 GiB5.84×
8,1920.18 GiB0.97 GiB5.45×
16,3840.29 GiB1.47 GiB5.12×
32,7680.51 GiB2.47 GiB4.88×
65,5360.94 GiB4.47 GiB4.74×
131,0721.82 GiB8.47 GiB4.66×