Qwen3-1.7B vs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
lmstudio-community · B
Params
1.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
285 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-1.7B | DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.0 B | 1.3 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 7,765,125 | 285,391 |
| Downloads all time | 56.3 M | 5.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-05-29 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
7.8 M266 K
Qwen3-1.7B
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16
5.3 GB / 24 GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx
8.6 GB / 24 GB