Model comparison
whisper-small vs GigaAM-v3
At Q4_K_M, whisper-small is the smaller download — 171,630,656 bytes against 182,497,888.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| whisper-small | GigaAM-v3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 242M | 223M |
| Architecture | whisper | gigaam |
| Layers | 12 | — |
| Native context | — | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 19 | 18 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.08 GiB | 0.17 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.16 GiB | 0.17 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | whisper-small | GigaAM-v3 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | — | — |
| 8,192 | — | — | — |
| 16,384 | — | — | — |
| 32,768 | — | — | — |
| 65,536 | — | — | — |
| 131,072 | — | — | — |