Qwen-72B vs Meta-Llama-3-70B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 August 2026.
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
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30d
136 K
llama3 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen-72B | Meta-Llama-3-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 72.3 B | 70.6 B |
| Architecture | QWenLMHeadModel | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | other | llama3 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Conditional |
| Languages | 2 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 157,322 | 135,686 |
| Downloads all time | 7.5 M | 4.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-11-26 | 2024-04-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
4.2 M132 K
Qwen-72B
Meta-Llama-3-70B
A overtook B on 9 Nov
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Meta-Llama-3-70B · fp16
166.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen-72B · fp16
170.4 GB / 24 GB