Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

nvidia · A
Params
18.7 B
Context
30d
11.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
swiss-ai · B
Params
8.1 B
Context
65,536
30d
361 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509
Parameters 18.7 B 8.1 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration ApertusForCausalLM
Context length 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 11,298,952 360,741
Downloads all time 19.7 M 2.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-27 2025-08-13

Download trend

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

11.3 M297 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509

VRAM side by side

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

Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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