Model comparison
Llama3.2-3B-creative-writer-v0.1 vs Qwen3-4B
At Q4_K_M, Llama3.2-3B-creative-writer-v0.1 is the smaller download — 2,019,375,264 bytes against 2,497,280,256. At long context the gap widens: Llama3.2-3B-creative-writer-v0.1'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
| Llama3.2-3B-creative-writer-v0.1 | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 3.2B | 4.0B |
| Architecture | llama | qwen3 |
| Layers | 28 | 36 |
| Native context | 131,072 | 40,960 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 36 | 29 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.81 GiB | 1.01 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 1.88 GiB | 2.33 GiB |
| Licence | llama3.2 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Llama3.2-3B-creative-writer-v0.1 | Qwen3-4B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.44 GiB | 0.56 GiB | 1.29× |
| 8,192 | 0.88 GiB | 1.13 GiB | 1.29× |
| 16,384 | 1.75 GiB | 2.25 GiB | 1.29× |
| 32,768 | 3.50 GiB | 4.50 GiB | 1.29× |
| 65,536 | 7.00 GiB | 9.00 GiB | 1.29× |
| 131,072 | 14.00 GiB | 18.00 GiB | 1.29× |