Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs gemma-2-9b-it

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Params

7.6 B

Context

32,768

30d

3.5 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

google · B

Params

9.2 B

Context

—

30d

745 K

gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ	gemma-2-9b-it
Parameters	7.6 B	9.2 B
Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM	Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length	32,768	—
Licence	apache-2.0	gemma
Commercial use	Allowed	Conditional
Languages	1	—
Downloads 30d	3,504,235	745,197
Downloads all time	22.9 M	11.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-17	2024-06-24

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.7 M324 K

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ gemma-2-9b-it

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

gemma-2-9b-it · fp16 22.2 GB / 24 GB

⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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