Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ vs Meta-Llama-3-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 5 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
—
30d
139 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ Meta-Llama-3-8B
Parameters 14.8 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 —
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 1,132,304 139,310
Downloads all time 18.6 M 47.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-04-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.4 M139 K
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ Meta-Llama-3-8B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 13.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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