Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct vs Qwen3-14B-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
5.9 M
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen3-14B-AWQ
Parameters 8.0 B 14.8 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence llama3.1 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 5,919,746 2,558,388
Downloads all time 184.9 M 14.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-07-18 2025-05-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

8.0 M2.1 M
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Qwen3-14B-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-14B-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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