Qwen3-0.6B vs gpt2-medium

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
openai-community · B
Params
380 M
Context
30d
572 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-0.6B 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 29,699,637 571,519
Downloads all time 180.6 M 29.1 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

29.7 M565 K
Qwen3-0.6B gpt2-medium

VRAM side by side

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

gpt2-medium · fp16 2.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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