Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 11 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
216 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
17.8 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.0 M

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
Parameters 14.8 B 17.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 6
Downloads 30d 216,255 1,011,751
Downloads all time 8.1 M 3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-11-09 2026-08-04

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.9 M196 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 13.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 366.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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