DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs Llama-3.1-8B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
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 | 857,619 | 533,561 |
| Downloads all time | 7.8 M | 28.0 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
2.0 M493 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
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B · fp16 @ 128K ctx
38.2 GB / 24 GB