Model comparison

Qwen3.6-40B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking vs Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP

At Q4_K_M, Qwen3.6-40B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-Thinking is the smaller download — 24,253,604,896 bytes against 36,545,830,912. At long context the gap widens: Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP's KV cache at 32K is 1.5× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

Qwen3.6-40B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingQwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP
Parameters39.5B27.8B
Architectureqwen35qwen35
Layers9664
Native context262,144262,144
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published3034
Smallest quantization13.76 GiB10.12 GiB
Q4_K_M22.59 GiB34.04 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextQwen3.6-40B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Deckard-Heretic-Uncensored-ThinkingQwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTPRatio
4,0960.38 GiB0.25 GiB1.50×
8,1920.75 GiB0.50 GiB1.50×
16,3841.50 GiB1.00 GiB1.50×
32,7683.00 GiB2.00 GiB1.50×
65,5366.00 GiB4.00 GiB1.50×
131,07212.00 GiB8.00 GiB1.50×