Is gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic or Qwen3.5-9B smaller?

gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic is smaller at Q4_K_M: 4.97 GiB against 5.24 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic — its KV cache at 32K context is 2.0x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic vs Qwen3.5-9B

At Q4_K_M, gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic is the smaller download — 5,335,286,336 bytes against 5,627,044,256. At long context the gap widens: gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic's KV cache at 32K is 2.0× 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-heretic	Qwen3.5-9B
Parameters	8.0B	9.7B
Architecture	gemma4	qwen35
Layers	42	32
Native context	131,072	262,144
Mixture of experts	no	no
Quantizations published	24	34
Smallest quantization	4.10 GiB	2.97 GiB
Q4_K_M	4.97 GiB	5.24 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	gemma-4-E4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic	Qwen3.5-9B	Ratio
4,096	0.12 GiB	0.13 GiB	1.02×
8,192	0.18 GiB	0.25 GiB	1.41×
16,384	0.29 GiB	0.50 GiB	1.74×
32,768	0.51 GiB	1.00 GiB	1.98×
65,536	0.94 GiB	2.00 GiB	2.12×
131,072	1.82 GiB	4.00 GiB	2.20×