Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct vs Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
827 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
OBLITERATUS · B · Open weights
Params
27.8 B
Context
—
30d
532 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED
Parameters 14.8 B 27.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 32,768 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 826,546 531,632
Downloads all time 49.7 M 2.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2026-08-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

3.4 M245 K
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED · Q4_K_M 23.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.8-27B-OBLITERATED · fp16 126.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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