Is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic or Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP smaller?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic is smaller at Q4_K_M: 19.72 GiB against 34.04 GiB.

Which uses less memory at long context?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic — its KV cache at 32K context is 3.2x smaller, because of how its attention layers cache.

Model comparison

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic vs Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic is the smaller download — 21,169,117,024 bytes against 36,545,830,912. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic's KV cache at 32K is 3.2× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP
Parameters	35.1B	27.8B
Architecture	qwen35moe	qwen35
Layers	40	64
Native context	262,144	262,144
Mixture of experts	yes, 256 experts	no
Quantizations published	8	34
Smallest quantization	8.70 GiB	10.12 GiB
Q4_K_M	19.72 GiB	34.04 GiB
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability

Context	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-ultra-uncensored-heretic	Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP	Ratio
4,096	0.08 GiB	0.25 GiB	3.20×
8,192	0.16 GiB	0.50 GiB	3.20×
16,384	0.31 GiB	1.00 GiB	3.20×
32,768	0.63 GiB	2.00 GiB	3.20×
65,536	1.25 GiB	4.00 GiB	3.20×
131,072	2.50 GiB	8.00 GiB	3.20×