Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic vs Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 13 August 2026.

RedHatAI · A
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
283 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
195 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 1.5 B 1.8 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence llama3.2 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 283,247 194,969
Downloads all time 13.8 M 6.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-25 2024-09-17

Download trend

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

1.6 M195 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ A overtook B on 11 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 2.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic · fp16 @ 128K ctx 6.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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