Qwen3-0.6B vs gpt2-large

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

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

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-0.6B gpt2-large
Parameters 750 M 810 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 20,728,069 907,711
Downloads all time 261.3 M 62.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

31.2 M794 K
Qwen3-0.6B gpt2-large

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2-large · fp16 4.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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