gemma-3-270m vs Qwen3-0.6B-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 14 August 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
270 M
Context
—
30d
238 K
gemma licence · conditional
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
138 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-270m Qwen3-0.6B-FP8
Parameters 270 M 750 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length — 40,960
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 237,541 138,488
Downloads all time 17.2 M 13.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

1.9 M138 K
gemma-3-270m Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 A overtook B on 12 Oct

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-270m · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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