Model comparison

Llama-3-8B-Instruct-32k-v0.1 vs Qwen3-8B

At Q4_K_M, Llama-3-8B-Instruct-32k-v0.1 is the smaller download — 4,920,734,208 bytes against 5,027,783,488.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Llama-3-8B-Instruct-32k-v0.1Qwen3-8B
Parameters8.0B8.2B
Architecturellamaqwen3
Layers36
Native context40,960
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published1551
Smallest quantization1.88 GiB2.12 GiB
Q4_K_M4.58 GiB4.68 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextLlama-3-8B-Instruct-32k-v0.1Qwen3-8BRatio
4,0960.56 GiB
8,1921.13 GiB
16,3842.25 GiB
32,7684.50 GiB
65,5369.00 GiB
131,07218.00 GiB