Personal Eval follow-up: Gemma4 26B MoE (Q8) vs Qwen3.5 27B Dense vs Gemma4 31B Dense Compared
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This is a follow-up update to my previous post comparing Qwen 3.6 35B vs Gemma 4 26B. I wanted to particularly follow-up with the following: 1. Gemma 4 26B could've suffered the quantization tax and perform drastically better with an 8-bit quant. So I wanted to put that to the test with UD's Q8_K_XL this time 2. A lot of people (including myself) were curious to see how the Qwen 3.5 27B dense would perform in these tests. 3. Speaking of dense models, I also wanted to include the Gemma 4 31B to see how it performs. Sharing results consolidated with previous run for a complete comparison 1.