Qwen-72B vs llama-3.3-70b-instruct-awq

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

Qwen · A
Params
72.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.2 M
casperhansen · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
507 K
llama3.3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen-72B llama-3.3-70b-instruct-awq
Parameters 72.3 B 70.6 B
Architecture QWenLMHeadModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other llama3.3
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 2 8
Downloads 30d 4,220,611 507,212
Downloads all time 7.5 M 4.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-26 2024-12-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.2 M266 K
Qwen-72B llama-3.3-70b-instruct-awq

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen-72B · fp16 170.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
llama-3.3-70b-instruct-awq · fp16 @ 128K ctx 213.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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