Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs Llama-3.1-8B

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

nvidia · A

Params

18.7 B

Context

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30d

11.3 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

meta-llama · B

Params

8.0 B

Context

—

30d

1.5 M

llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4	Llama-3.1-8B
Parameters	18.7 B	8.0 B
Architecture	Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration	LlamaForCausalLM
Context length	—	—
Licence	apache-2.0	llama3.1
Commercial use	Allowed	Conditional
Languages	—	8
Downloads 30d	11,298,952	1,515,292
Downloads all time	19.7 M	27.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub	2026-05-27	2024-07-14

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

11.3 M1.5 M

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Llama-3.1-8B

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

Llama-3.1-8B · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB

❌ Won’t fit