Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 5 September 2026.

nvidia · A · Open weights
Params
18.7 B
Context
—
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
189 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Parameters 18.7 B 70.6 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration LlamaForCausalLM
Context length — 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,971,809 189,344
Downloads all time 42.1 M 5.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-27 2025-01-20

Download trend

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

12.6 M189 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 325.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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