Model comparison

whisper-large-v3-turbo vs whisper-medium

At Q4_K_M, whisper-medium is the smaller download — 504,102,848 bytes against 536,069,728.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-large-v3-turbowhisper-medium
Parameters809M764M
Architecturewhisperwhisper
Layers3224
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published3119
Smallest quantization0.27 GiB0.25 GiB
Q4_K_M0.50 GiB0.47 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-large-v3-turbowhisper-mediumRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072