Qwen3-1.7B vs gpt2-xl

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
7.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai-community · B
Params
1.6 B
Context
30d
160 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B gpt2-xl
Parameters 2.0 B 1.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 159,722
Downloads all time 56.3 M 16.7 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)

7.8 M160 K
Qwen3-1.7B gpt2-xl

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2-xl · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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