Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit vs Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 5 October 2026.
lmstudio-community · A · Open weights
Params
4.7 B
Context
—
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
805 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit | Phi-3.5-vision-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.7 B | 4.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration | Phi3VForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 3,708,149 | 805,145 |
| Downloads all time | 10.2 M | 20.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-14 | 2024-08-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 65 days (22 Aug – 25 Oct)
5.0 M796 K
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
A overtook B on 23 Aug
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit · fp16
18.9 GB / 24 GB
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
19.6 GB / 24 GB