Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 2 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
2.6 M
RedHatAI · B · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
185 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8
Parameters 3.1 B 1.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other llama3.2
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 185,376
Downloads all time 125.6 M 6.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-09-26

Download trend

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

7.6 M185 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 6.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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