Qwen2.5-0.5B vs Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 4 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
1.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RedHatAI · B
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
283 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic
Parameters 490 M 1.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 1,612,646 283,247
Downloads all time 29.8 M 13.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-15 2024-09-25

Download trend

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

2.7 M280 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic

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
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic · fp16 @ 128K ctx 6.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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