Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3-0.6B-FP8
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 1.5 B | 750 M |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 40,960 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 13,977,170 | 1,581,403 |
| Downloads all time | 206.3 M | 12.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2025-04-28 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
14.2 M1.6 M
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Qwen3-0.6B-FP8
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16
4.1 GB / 24 GB