Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs Qwen3-0.6B-FP8

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

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
6.9 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
270 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Qwen3-0.6B-FP8
Parameters 1.2 B 750 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence llama3.2 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 6,922,063 269,828
Downloads all time 103.8 M 13.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

10.4 M270 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Qwen3-0.6B-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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