Gemma4 is still power hungry since it tends to activate pretty much every weight.

qwen3-coder-next uses a lot less since it seems to only activate ~3B parameters at a time.

My guess is that this is still close to tech demo, and a lot of performance is left on the table.

The article is about two models which have either 2B or 4B parameters. Both are dense models. The 2B version will certainly use less power than qwen3-coder-next.

The models are quite good. They aren't just a tech demo.