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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Params

7.6 B

Context

32,768

30d

4.6 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

NousResearch · B

Meta-Llama-3-8B

Params

8.0 B

Context

8,192

30d

291 K

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	8,192
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	1	1
Downloads 30d	4,626,313	290,926
Downloads all time	16.8 M	1.4 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.6 M158 K

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

✅ Runs comfortably

Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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