Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
12.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RedHatAI · B
Params
11.3 B
Context
65,536
30d
338 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16
Parameters 7.6 B 11.3 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM ApertusForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 12,117,940 337,908
Downloads all time 165.8 M 516 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-09-21

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

12.2 M226 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16 · fp16 46.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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