Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs gpt2-xl

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

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
openai-community · B
Params
1.6 B
Context
30d
160 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct gpt2-xl
Parameters 3.1 B 1.6 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length 32,768
Licence other mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 5,952,246 159,722
Downloads all time 110.0 M 16.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

6.0 M160 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct gpt2-xl

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2-xl · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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