Qwen3-8B vs Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
14.4 B
Context
—
30d
1.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4
Parameters 8.2 B 14.4 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 1,744,574
Downloads all time 137.6 M 10.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-05-01

Download trend

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

16.4 M842 K
Qwen3-8B Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4 · fp16 23.3 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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