Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen3-0.6B-FP8

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
Qwen · B
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
1.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3-0.6B-FP8
Parameters 2.0 B 750 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 1,581,403
Downloads all time 56.3 M 12.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

7.8 M1.6 M
Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3-0.6B-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B-FP8 · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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