Qwen3-1.7B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4-DSpark

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B
Params
760 M
Context
1,048,576
30d
241 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4-DSpark
Parameters 2.0 B 760 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3DSparkModel
Context length 40,960 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 3,619,571 241,067
Downloads all time 62.1 M 341 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-08-05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

7.8 M191 K
Qwen3-1.7B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4-DSpark

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 16.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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