Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Meta-Llama-3-8B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ | Meta-Llama-3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 7.6 B | 8.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,626,313 | 2,054,076 |
| Downloads all time | 16.8 M | 46.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2024-04-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.6 M1.7 M
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ
Meta-Llama-3-8B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16
7.8 GB / 24 GB
Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB