Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Llama-2-7b-chat-hf

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
30d
753 K
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
Parameters 7.6 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 llama2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 4,626,313 752,609
Downloads all time 16.8 M 31.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2023-07-13

Download trend

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

4.6 M617 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Llama-2-7b-chat-hf

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
Llama-2-7b-chat-hf · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons