Qwen3-1.7B vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16

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
nvidia · B
Params
4.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
739 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16
Parameters 2.0 B 4.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 739,025
Downloads all time 56.3 M 3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-03-07

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

7.8 M710 K
Qwen3-1.7B NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16

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-Nano-4B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 28.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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