Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs pythia-6.9b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B
Params
7.0 B
Context
2,048
30d
757 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ pythia-6.9b
Parameters 7.6 B 7.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 3,513,666 756,930
Downloads all time 22.8 M 3.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2023-02-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

4.7 M287 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ pythia-6.9b

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
pythia-6.9b · fp16 16.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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