Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4

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
hugging-quants · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
245 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4
Parameters 7.6 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.1
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 3,504,235 244,679
Downloads all time 22.9 M 7.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-07-19

Download trend

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

4.7 M167 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4

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
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 26.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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