Meta-Llama-3-8B vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 August 2026.
cyankiwi · B
Params
5.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
204 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 | 5.3 B |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 262,144 |
| Licence | llama3 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 275,232 | 204,079 |
| Downloads all time | 47.1 M | 3.0 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
2.1 M204 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
A overtook B on 15 Sep
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx
45.9 GB / 24 GB