Qwen3-8B vs Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16

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

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
16.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RedHatAI · B
Params
11.3 B
Context
65,536
30d
338 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16
Parameters 8.2 B 11.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM ApertusForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 337,908
Downloads all time 103.2 M 516 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-09-21

Download trend

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

16.6 M226 K
Qwen3-8B Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509-quantized.w4a16 · fp16 46.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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