Qwen3-0.6B vs Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 2 September 2026.
RedHatAI · B · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
185 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-0.6B | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 750 M | 1.5 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.2 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 20,728,069 | 185,376 |
| Downloads all time | 261.3 M | 6.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-09-26 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
31.2 M185 K
Qwen3-0.6B
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-0.6B · fp16
2.3 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-FP8 · fp16 @ 128K ctx
6.3 GB / 24 GB