DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-8B-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 7 August 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
371 K
mit · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
225 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Qwen3-8B-FP8
Parameters 8.2 B 8.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 40,960
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 370,533 224,647
Downloads all time 8.6 M 5.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-29 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

1.3 M225 K
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B Qwen3-8B-FP8 A overtook B on 3 Nov

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B-FP8 · fp16 12.1 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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