Hi, I want to ask if you recommend the V2 or the gemma-4-12B-it-Claude-4.6-4.8-Opus-GGUF for thinking, planning, analyzing code architecture, security analysis (cybersecurity), etc.
My plan is to use a Q8 on my 5070ti for thinking and then Qwen3.5-9b Q5 with a 100k context window for coding (as worker, like gemini 3.0 flash)
Hi @RodrigoTata — for that role (the "brain": thinking, planning, architecture review, security analysis) I'd pick the main distillation, gemma-4-12B-it-Claude-4.6-4.8-Opus-GGUF, not v2.
Reason: that one is black-box distilled from Claude Opus reasoning traces, with a thinking channel — it's tuned for exactly this kind of open-ended analysis, planning and explanation. v2 is the opposite specialization: it's fine-tuned for agentic coding execution — driving tools, editing/running files, multi-step task loops (that's the tau2-bench telecom 15→55% you see in the name). It's the model you'd reach for if you wanted the Gemma side to do the coding — but in your setup that's Qwen's job. v2 also traded some general-knowledge breadth for that coding/agentic focus, so as a pure planner it's a slightly worse fit than the Opus distillation.
So your architect/worker split is the right idea — just assign it this way:
Planner / architect / security analysis → main Opus distillation (Q8)
Coding worker → Qwen as you planned (though if you ever want to A/B it, v2 is literally built to be a good agentic worker too)
A few practical notes:
Q8 (~12.7 GB) fits your 5070 Ti's 16 GB with room for a normal planning context. Keep the 100k window on the Qwen worker as planned — the planner doesn't need it.
The main repo also ships an MTP draft (MTP/ folder) for speculative decoding — worth enabling, since a "thinking" model emits a lot of tokens and you'll feel the speedup.
Honest caveat: both are 12B. They're good at structuring a plan, threat-modeling, or explaining an architecture, but for deep cybersecurity analysis don't expect frontier-level depth — treat the output as a strong first pass to verify, not ground truth.
Either way you can run both side by side and see which planner you like better. Thanks for the thoughtful setup — let me know how the pipeline works out.
