Qwen3-1.7B vs gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
lmstudio-community · B · Open weights
Params
1.0 B
Context
—
30d
187 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF
Parameters 2.0 B 1.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,732,406 187,454
Downloads all time 68.4 M 502 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-03-12

Download trend

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

7.4 M147 K
Qwen3-1.7B gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF · Q4_K_M 1.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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