Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-8bit vs Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

lmstudio-community · A
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
4.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-8bit Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 8.0 B 8.3 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,500,496 1,934,637
Downloads all time 5.5 M 13.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-14 2025-02-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 30 days (23 Aug – 21 Sep)

4.8 M996 K
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-8bit Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ A overtook B on 24 Aug

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 @ 125K ctx 27.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-8bit · fp16 34.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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