Model comparison
SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct vs gemma-3-1b-it
At Q4_K_M, gemma-3-1b-it is the smaller download — 806,058,240 bytes against 1,112,602,656.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct | gemma-3-1b-it | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.2B | 1000M |
| Architecture | llama | gemma3 |
| Layers | 24 | 26 |
| Native context | 8,192 | 32,768 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 40 | 28 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.42 GiB | 0.52 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 1.04 GiB | 0.75 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct | 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 | — |