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
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
275 K
llama3 licence · conditional
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
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx 45.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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