bge-large-zh-v1.5 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

BAAI · A
Params
Context
512
30d
1.1 M
mit · commercial OK
RamManavalan · B
Params
8.8 B
Context
30d
525 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification bge-large-zh-v1.5 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B-FP8
Parameters 8.8 B
Architecture BertModel Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 512
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 1,054,350 525,074
Downloads all time 27.7 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-09-12 2026-01-22

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

1.8 M417 K
bge-large-zh-v1.5 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B-FP8

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B-FP8 · fp16 13.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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