gemma-3-1b-it vs Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
4.7 M
gemma licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
620 M
Context
32,768
30d
201 K

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat
Parameters 1.0 B 620 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence gemma other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,749,309 200,708
Downloads all time 46.4 M 7.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2024-01-31

Download trend

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

4.7 M160 K
gemma-3-1b-it Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat · fp16 2.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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