Qwen3-14B vs Meta-Llama-3-8B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 5 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
14.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
2.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
275 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-14B Meta-Llama-3-8B
Parameters 14.8 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,021,818 275,232
Downloads all time 28.3 M 47.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-17

Download trend

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

3.2 M275 K
Qwen3-14B Meta-Llama-3-8B

VRAM side by side

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

Meta-Llama-3-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-14B · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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