Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 8 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RedHatAI · B · Open weights
Params
3.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
233 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic
Parameters 7.6 B 3.6 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 1,313,849 233,446
Downloads all time 25.9 M 958 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-09-25

Download trend

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

2.8 M207 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic · fp16 @ 128K ctx 14.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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