Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 vs gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 3 August 2026.

nvidia · A · Open weights
Params
18.2 B
Context
—
30d
312 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
mlx-community · B · Open weights
Params
20.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
171 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8
Parameters 18.2 B 20.9 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration GptOssForCausalLM
Context length — 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 311,750 170,659
Downloads all time 4.2 M 7.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-06-22 2025-08-29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.6 M155 K
Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8 A overtook B on 25 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 · fp16 27.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 64.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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