DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs Llama-3.1-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
371 K
mit · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
475 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Llama-3.1-8B
Parameters 8.2 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 —
Licence mit llama3.1
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 8
Downloads 30d 370,533 475,210
Downloads all time 8.6 M 29.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-29 2024-07-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.3 M349 K
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Llama-3.1-8B

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.1-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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