gemma-3-1b-it vs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
4.7 M
gemma licence · conditional
lmstudio-community · B
Params
1.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
285 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
Parameters 1.0 B 1.3 B
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence gemma mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,749,309 285,391
Downloads all time 46.4 M 5.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2025-05-29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.7 M266 K
gemma-3-1b-it DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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