Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
218 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1
Parameters 7.6 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 3,504,235 218,118
Downloads all time 22.9 M 1.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-03-16

Download trend

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

4.7 M174 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1

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-3.1-Nemotron-Nano-8B-v1 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 37.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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