Qwen3-32B-AWQ vs Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 1 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
811 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
30d
203 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B-AWQ Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
Parameters 32.8 B 70.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.1
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 811,171 203,439
Downloads all time 9.3 M 24.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-01 2024-07-16

Download trend

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

2.0 M203 K
Qwen3-32B-AWQ Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct A overtook B on 26 Aug

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B-AWQ · fp16 26.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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