Meta-Llama-3-8B vs Qwen3-8B-FP8

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

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
139 K
llama3 licence · conditional
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
240 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Meta-Llama-3-8B Qwen3-8B-FP8
Parameters 8.0 B 8.2 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length — 40,960
Licence llama3 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 139,310 239,712
Downloads all time 47.3 M 567 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-04-17 2025-09-09

Download trend

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

1.9 M139 K
Meta-Llama-3-8B Qwen3-8B-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B-FP8 · fp16 12.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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