Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 vs gpt2-medium

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 15 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
138 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai-community · B · Open weights
Params
380 M
Context
—
30d
166 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 gpt2-medium
Parameters 750 M 380 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 138,488 165,931
Downloads all time 13.5 M 30.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-28 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

1.2 M138 K
Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 gpt2-medium

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2-medium · fp16 2.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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