Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ

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

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
8.0 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
2.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 8.0 B 14.8 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence llama3.1 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 8,014,793 2,513,266
Downloads all time 175.3 M 13.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2024-09-17

Download trend

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

8.0 M2.3 M
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 13.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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