Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 vs SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
27.8 B
Context
30d
7.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
510 M
Context
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct
Parameters 27.8 B 510 M
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 7,781,120 1,161,729
Downloads all time 23.4 M 4.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-21 2025-02-11

Download trend

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

7.8 M995 K
Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 · fp16 38.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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