Qwen3-1.7B vs PowerMoE-3b

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
ibm-research · B
Params
3.4 B
Context
4,096
30d
1.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B PowerMoE-3b
Parameters 2.0 B 3.4 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GraniteMoeForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 1,843,751
Downloads all time 56.3 M 10.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-08-14

Download trend

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

7.8 M1.8 M
Qwen3-1.7B PowerMoE-3b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
PowerMoE-3b · fp16 15.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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