Qwen2.5-0.5B vs gpt2-medium

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai-community · B
Params
380 M
Context
30d
572 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B gpt2-medium
Parameters 490 M 380 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,599,813 571,519
Downloads all time 27.1 M 29.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-15 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

2.7 M565 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B gpt2-medium

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-0.5B · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2-medium · fp16 2.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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