gpt-oss-120b vs Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ

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

openai · A
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
4.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
73.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.3 M

Specification comparison

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Specification gpt-oss-120b Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 120.4 B 73.0 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,221,708 1,295,861
Downloads all time 48.6 M 11.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-09-17

Download trend

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

4.3 M1.3 M
gpt-oss-120b Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 57.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gpt-oss-120b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 433.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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