Model comparison
SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-v0.2 vs gemma-3-1b-it
At Q4_K_M, gemma-3-1b-it is the smaller download — 806,058,240 bytes against 1,055,610,144.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-v0.2 | gemma-3-1b-it | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 1.7B | 1000M |
| Architecture | llama | gemma3 |
| Layers | — | 26 |
| Native context | — | 32,768 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 32 | 28 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.38 GiB | 0.52 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.98 GiB | 0.75 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-v0.2 | gemma-3-1b-it | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | 0.04 GiB | — |
| 8,192 | — | 0.05 GiB | — |
| 16,384 | — | 0.08 GiB | — |
| 32,768 | — | 0.15 GiB | — |
| 65,536 | — | 0.27 GiB | — |
| 131,072 | — | 0.52 GiB | — |