Qwen3-32B-AWQ vs Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ

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
Qwen · B
Params
73.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
475 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-32B-AWQ Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 32.8 B 73.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 811,171 475,362
Downloads all time 9.3 M 11.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-05-01 2024-09-17

Download trend

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

2.0 M374 K
Qwen3-32B-AWQ Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ 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
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 57.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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