Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
5.9 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
nvidia · B
Params
5.0 B
Context
128,000
30d
399 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-NVFP4
Parameters 8.0 B 5.0 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence llama3.1 other
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 5,910,102 399,118
Downloads all time 185.1 M 827 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2025-09-10

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

8.0 M219 K
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-NVFP4

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 125K ctx 20.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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