Meta-Llama-3-8B vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit

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

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
139 K
llama3 licence · conditional
cyankiwi · B · Open weights
Params
30.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
142 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Meta-Llama-3-8B Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
Parameters 8.0 B 30.0 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length — 262,144
Licence llama3 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 139,310 142,312
Downloads all time 47.3 M 3.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-04-17 2025-07-29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.9 M139 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx 164.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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