PowerMoE-3b vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 July 2026.

ibm-research · A · Open weights
Params
3.4 B
Context
4,096
30d
171 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
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 PowerMoE-3b Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
Parameters 3.4 B 30.0 B
Architecture GraniteMoeForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 4,096 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 170,877 142,312
Downloads all time 12.0 M 3.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-08-14 2025-07-29

Download trend

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

1.6 M142 K
PowerMoE-3b Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit A overtook B on 28 Oct

VRAM side by side

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

PowerMoE-3b · fp16 15.9 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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