Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs llama-3-8b-instruct-awq

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
casperhansen · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
265 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ llama-3-8b-instruct-awq
Parameters 7.6 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 8,192
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,504,235 264,588
Downloads all time 22.9 M 2.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-04-18

Download trend

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

4.7 M173 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ llama-3-8b-instruct-awq

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-3-8b-instruct-awq · fp16 8.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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