Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

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
meta-llama · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
1.2 M
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
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 3,504,235 1,201,479
Downloads all time 22.9 M 48.3 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.7 M1.2 M
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

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-3-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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