Qwen3-0.6B vs gemma-2-2b

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

Qwen · A
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
29.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B
Params
2.6 B
Context
30d
224 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-0.6B gemma-2-2b
Parameters 750 M 2.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages
Downloads 30d 29,699,637 223,594
Downloads all time 180.6 M 25.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-07-16

Download trend

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

29.7 M214 K
Qwen3-0.6B gemma-2-2b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-2-2b · fp16 12.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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